Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Not that remarkable surely? Loads have people will have never bought anything on vinyl.
When did you last physically go inna shop and buy music?
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It's been a long time since I browsed in a music shop never mind bought something. I've bought the odd CD as a present for someone in a supermarket. But the last proper record store I browsed in and bought something was Probe, and that must be about four or five years ago.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Somebody gave me some iTunes vouchers which I used yesterday, does that count?.
I honestly can't remember the last time I got something in a shop.
I honestly can't remember the last time I got something in a shop.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Would have been a couple of weeks ago if the local Zavvi had had what I wanted. Ended up paying to download it instead.
So a couple of months ago, then. Bought a Beverley Knight album on the basis that a track I heard was brilliant and I should get more music, but the album was shit. More fool me? I should probably have downloaded free, then bought. Can't be arsed with the software though.
So a couple of months ago, then. Bought a Beverley Knight album on the basis that a track I heard was brilliant and I should get more music, but the album was shit. More fool me? I should probably have downloaded free, then bought. Can't be arsed with the software though.
It works so well because it cuts out all the stuff I can't stand, so I don't have to fight my way through racks of shite
I must pay that a visit sometime, because one of the reasons my trip to MVE yesterday took so long was the fact that all of their ground floor stuff is arranged in very thin walletts which I had to shuffle through. Down in the bargain basement was much easier because they were in jewell cases and I could just scan the spines.
Why do I suddenly sound like an extra in High Fidelity?
Silva
This went well.
My parents and my older brother were never much into music and never had a turntable - in fact, we only had a cassette deck until 95 or 96, when my mum saw a cheap CD player (It was a typo in the leaflet, but ended up buying it anyway - I still remember the day we bought itEver?
) and decided it was time to get along with the times.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Unless what you want happens to be incredibly mainstream, that's unlikely these days. Is it just me, or has it got even worse since it was rebranded from Virgin?
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
My mother-in-law has no music whatsoever in her house. None. And nothing to play it on.
The only musical thing she has is a Christmas decoration which she brings out every year. It plays a medley of very bad tinny Carols in horrible two-part harmony digital tones, which break off at odd parts of the melodies.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
I've never downloaded any music. What is the point of possessing music anymore when its just an MP3 on a computer which I can listen to anytime I switch on my computer. 
CDs are ugly enough even when they've got all the original cover artwork. If you burn your own CD is even uglier and not worth having as an object. Don't own an iPod or the like.
Music has become cheaper and cheaper and here in Central London even live music by pretty decent banks seems to be for free at the smaller promo venues.
The music market has lost its commodity fetishcism (saving up your pocket money to buy a beautiful vinyl record release) and we now have communism, oversupply music upbiquity, unattractive solid formats and transient electronic downloads that will be lost as soon as computer is exchanged, virused, stolen, upgraded etc.
CDs are ugly enough even when they've got all the original cover artwork. If you burn your own CD is even uglier and not worth having as an object. Don't own an iPod or the like.
Music has become cheaper and cheaper and here in Central London even live music by pretty decent banks seems to be for free at the smaller promo venues.
The music market has lost its commodity fetishcism (saving up your pocket money to buy a beautiful vinyl record release) and we now have communism, oversupply music upbiquity, unattractive solid formats and transient electronic downloads that will be lost as soon as computer is exchanged, virused, stolen, upgraded etc.
foo
dirtysweet
I've never downloaded any music. What is the point of possessing music anymore when its just an MP3 on a computer which I can listen to anytime I switch on my computer.
CDs are ugly enough even when they've got all the original cover artwork. If you burn your own CD is even uglier and not worth having as an object. Don't own an iPod or the like.
Music has become cheaper and cheaper and here in Central London even live music by pretty decent banks seems to be for free at the smaller promo venues.
The music market has lost its commodity fetishcism (saving up your pocket money to buy a beautiful vinyl record release) and we now have communism, oversupply music upbiquity, unattractive solid formats and transient electronic downloads that will be lost as soon as computer is exchanged, virused, stolen, upgraded etc.
i am sad for you.
really i am. i'd hate to think like you. not being rude or nothing....
cambridge is shit for record shops imo. the only one i like is Fopp and i go in there regularly. my best game is seeing what i can get for £20.
Whats wrong with listening to music on a computer?What is the point of possessing music anymore when its just an MP3 on a computer which I can listen to anytime I switch on my computer.
It sounds perfectly alright to me and its ever so practical you know.
I got so tired of lugging hundreds of albums around the country, up and down countless flights of stairs, in and out of my mums loft every time i went off travelling for a while etc etc
toblerone3
Grrrrr
i am sad for you.
not being rude or nothing....
cambridge is shit for record shops imo. the only one i like is Fopp and i go in there regularly. my best game is seeing what i can get for £20.
Yes but that's record shops. This thread is about not bothering with record shops.
What happened to Fopp btw I thought they closed down. Flagship store has gone. Mate of mine had a record deal with them.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Sorry, but that's the most contradictory load of old toss I've read in ages.
We have COMMUNISM?
What I mean by commuism is that music is virtually free and virtually on tap. 'Virtually' being the operative word in many cases.
foo
dirtysweet
but the title says 'when did you last physically go inna shop and buy music?'
i answered.
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
Bought six vinyl albums for a fiver from this place a month or so ago:
http://www.soundsoriginal.co.uk/
Got a load of hip hop and breaks stuff from the Music and Video Exchange on Berwick Street not long before that.
Last time I bought a brand-new, pre-recorded CD? Hmmm. Think I got three Fabric Live mixes from HMV last year some time.
I pay for online music quiet often though. Usually from Bleep. And I bought a CD from these guys:
http://www.nuttyfactory.com/index.cfm
who were selling their uk hip hop album outside Hammersmith Shopping Centre the other day.
I download lots of stuff too, but don't feel too guilty about it, as I've spent thousands and thousands on records and CDs in the past.
http://www.soundsoriginal.co.uk/
Got a load of hip hop and breaks stuff from the Music and Video Exchange on Berwick Street not long before that.
Last time I bought a brand-new, pre-recorded CD? Hmmm. Think I got three Fabric Live mixes from HMV last year some time.
I pay for online music quiet often though. Usually from Bleep. And I bought a CD from these guys:
http://www.nuttyfactory.com/index.cfm
who were selling their uk hip hop album outside Hammersmith Shopping Centre the other day.
I download lots of stuff too, but don't feel too guilty about it, as I've spent thousands and thousands on records and CDs in the past.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
but the title says 'when did you last physically go inna shop and buy music?'
i answered.
Sorry you're right its me that's off topic.
Its just that the answers to the question aren't particularly interesting unless you address the thought that lies behind it.
When did I last physcially go into a record shop and buy music? It would have been a 4 Hero album last spring "Play with the Changes" on vinyl from a little record shop in Chapel Market Islington which (along with Reckless Records on Upper Street) has since closed.
hammerntongues
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every month I buy something , a habit I have been feeding for 30 years or so , I cant get my head around MP3 , some of the records I still play now I bought 30/35 years ago , do you think you will have downloaded music still in your files in 35 years ? I very much doubt it , when you erase them you may think you wont want to hear them again but you will.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
Exactly.
MP3s and downloads are TRANSIENT. Now is that a good thing or a bad thing?
hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
I suppose that depends on how seriously you take you music , not in an Anorak sort of way but all my albums , less so the Cds , have a little bit of history attached , for the most part I can remember where I bought them and the sort of times they were bought in.
foo
dirtysweet
they re-opened. not sure of the story behind it though. ours was shut for a couple of months, then opened again.
which is nice
cos other than that, we've just got HMV and Virgin. oh and a half decent record stall on the market.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
In the era before recorded music all music was transient and yet it still had a bit of history attached. Ie that is the song I heard at Scarborough Fair that is the jig we danced to when or at this theatre or in this concert hall.
Could it be that the conciousness impinging event is returning (assuming that the trend to virtual music continues) to when I heard that tune rather than when I purchased that record, CD etc.
foo
dirtysweet
i'm like this. also, i really love some cd covers so am stubbornly luddite-ish about having all my music on mp3s as my brother keeps hassling me to do.
maybe i'll get with the programme but for now, i like owning my music.
toblerone3
Grrrrr
they re-opened. not sure of the story behind it though. ours was shut for a couple of months, then opened again.
which is nice
Just checked this out on wikipedia. They have reopened but the 87 stores and outlets they had until autumn 2007 have been reduced to just eight. One in London (Covent Garden)
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