... and all the pieces matter: Five Years of Music from The Wire Digital MP3 Album

""Television’s greatest series deserves a great soundtrack album,"" declares the San Francisco Chronicle, ""and that’s what it gets."" This compilation mixes dialogue snippets, Baltimore hip-hop, and end-of-season montage tracks from five years of The Wire, as well as four versions of the opening-credit song, Tom Waits’s ""Way Down in the Hole.""