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keith a 9572 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:11
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Squid Tempest wrote: You don't get to go out and meet like-minded people when you're downloading a new track. No, but I guess that places like this are today's equivalent. Don't get me wrong, I still like going to record shops but I've made more friends through this place and the Wire site than I ever did in a record shop. Of course, not so many kids appear to be as into music these days as they were - a generalisation I know but that appears to be the case to me - so I guess their equivalent is playing games on-line and chatting as they shoot 'people' : (
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keith a 9572 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:18
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Squid Tempest wrote: I'm also worried about the death of town centres. Before long all that will be left will be cafes, and they'll go out of business coz no-one has any reason to visit the town centre anymore. Whole communities will die because of the shrinking of the retail sector. Dark times. Of course, some of the town planning hasn't helped. I can think of a town near to me where in the past, say, 12-15 years there have been two major new retail re-developments. They are, however, some distance away from each other so for old people it must be a pain to say the least. What has happened as a result is that some of the chain stores have moved from their old premises to the new so to get from one complex to another you walk down a high street with lots of empty shops. At the risk of sounding like some embittered old fart I really don't think this is progress!
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flatboxertwin 369 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:30
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Spaceship mark wrote: Growing up in Blackpool HMV was pretty much the only place to buy records, certainly the only place to buy new records. Oh fond memories of a holiday in Blackpool in '73 at age 15. Woolies had racks and racks of vinyl, with a huge sale. For a matter of pennies I scored huge quantities of really obscure stuff that they obviously couldn't sell, but sadly almost none of which I still have (because some of them sell for ridiculously huge amounts), including: Czar S/t Marsupilami: Arena The Johnny Almond Music Machine Patent Pending Gravy Train S/T William R Strickland Is Only The Name The American Amboy Dukes:Journey To The Centre of the Mind Plus many others, long forgotten. Ian Anderson put it nicely: I'm going up the 'pool from down the smoke below To taste my mum's jam sarnies and see our aunty Flo The candy floss salesman watches ladies in the sand Down for a freaky weekend in the hope that they'll be meeting Mister Universe The iron tower smiles down upon the silver sea And along the golden mile they'll be swigging mugs of tea The politicians there who've come to take the air While posing for the daily press, will look around And blame the mess on Edward Bear There'll be bucket, spades and bingo, cockles, mussels Rainy days, seaweed and sand castles, icy waves Deck chairs, rubber dinghies, old vests, braces dangling down Sun tanned stranded starfish in a daze Oh, Blackpool Oh, Blackpool
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Kid Calamity 9044 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:35
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Strangely enough... no.
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Popel Vooje 5373 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:38
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Spaceship mark wrote: When I worked for them we got a huge staff discount, an hour for lunch and, if you were a good boy like me, could probably sneak off for the odd fag. You even got a discount in Waterstones. The two Christmasses I worked there everyone in my family got CDs, DVDs and books as presents... You did have to do a lot of standing up. And a lot of peeling of and sticking on of stickers. That was a ballache. Sounds like you had more generous management than Our Price. Their staff discount was a measly ten per cent, and it didn't apply to WHSMiths even though they owned Our Price at the time. Still, they went belly-up years ago, so that's water under the bridge.
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Spaceship mark 1686 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:41
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My mate Will's dad went to school with Ian Anderson. Ian once asked Will's dad if wanted to be the guitar player in a band he was forming, but Will's dad said he needed to concentrate on his O-Levels...
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Spaceship mark 1686 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:43
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It was something daft like 35% in HMV and 25% in Waterstones. Of course, all it encouraged you to do was give them your wages straight back! Everyone always had a stash of stock under the counter, waiting for pay day...
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Toni Torino 2299 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 16:53
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Spaceship mark wrote: My mate Will's dad went to school with Ian Anderson. Ian once asked Will's dad if wanted to be the guitar player in a band he was forming, but Will's dad said he needed to concentrate on his O-Levels... In what profession did Will's dad earn his keep?
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 17:24
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I remember when the Our Price in Manchester was winding down the selling of vinyl I got tons of stuff in the sell-off. I didn't own a cd player at the time and albums were going for £1 and even 50p. It got to the point I'd take a large bag with me on visits to take the weight of the booty.
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Jan 15, 2013, 17:26
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Spaceship mark wrote: My mate Will's dad went to school with Ian Anderson. Ian once asked Will's dad if wanted to be the guitar player in a band he was forming, but Will's dad said he needed to concentrate on his O-Levels... Gosh. O-Levels, D'oh levels! A great what-if moment.
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