record store day tommorow (november 25th)
people moan about the british institution the pub dying and the various reasons.
heres another one now with a day to go support them on, with the advent of the internet and downloading etc, shops selling physical media are dieing, particulrly shops that ONLY sell music, cos the usual run of the mill public also buy their cds from supermarkets.
for me record shops and later cds have been an important part of my growing up.
heres another one now with a day to go support them on, with the advent of the internet and downloading etc, shops selling physical media are dieing, particulrly shops that ONLY sell music, cos the usual run of the mill public also buy their cds from supermarkets.
for me record shops and later cds have been an important part of my growing up.
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I agree it's sad to see both vinyl and dedicated record shops disapear, but what's special about tomorrow in particular? Surely it can't be the last day shops can sell vinyl records, it's not something to have been made illegal like smoking in pubs was. Have I missed something (probably).
Anyway, even a non-musical person like me misses vinyl LPs a bit. CDs were great, mp3s are utterly fantastic (especiallly being able to carry them in a pocket-sized mp3 player), but there was something 'atmospheric' about LPs, both the way they looked, and the sound they made when they started playing (the slight hiss/crackle made you aware that music was about to start). Audio cassettes, though, I won't miss at all. Same with VHS cassettes.
no its a day invented purely for music fans to show their allegience to record shops and go buy something from them
ah im actually early lol
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
apparently its its in april, but tommorow is a special day celebrating the release of the black keys album....released on "black friday"
Since then, it's been amazon all the way.
If these shops refuse to sell anything even slightly left of mainstream then they deserve to die.
You? Growing up? :-o
As if that will ever happen!!! :razz:
OOOH why i outta
But on the other hand, doing it online might be easier but it makes people lazier and can you buy a pint of lager over the internet?
I'd much rather buy music from a high street shop, unfortunately they only want to stock chart music. I just can't be doing with wandering round loads of different stores and coming home empty handed. And If by some miracle they do have an album I like, it will be really expensive for some unexplained reason.
Well that will keep the shops going won't it? Having customers for 1 day a year?
So do I. But one day, you might come across a lucky find that very rarely or never gets mentioned on the compilatins HMV sell. The site I mentioned're a good source for forgotten favourites and so're Youtube and Youtube Downloader.
These 'Best Hits of the 70s/80s', 'The Only 70s/80s CD You'll Ever need', (you get the picture)'re ALL the same as eachother and not all Sknihead/OI music/bands're racist either.
I found some on Youtube.
oi tut, the vast majority arent
wp / blood and honour is a small genre of skinhead music tut
Put it this way, if I put some over the instore speakers I'd be sacked within a minute. I only started listening to OI because of the MADE IN BRITAIN theme (if you remember the early spectrum games you must remember this great TV play)
oh yes made in britains one of my fave films ever (along with babylon, quadrophenia, the firm, breaking glass, scum, threads) all those gritty british films from the late 70s/early 80s
i first saw it on telly at a party in the mid 80s full of punks and metallers, people drinking, doing drugs, shagging on the stairs and next to the toilet etc
the "theme" is exploited - uk82
i grew up on OI! music before i got politicised and moved onto anarcho punk, we walked round the streets with a large ghetto blaster blasting out stuff like infa riot, angelic upstarts, cockney rejects, the business etc etc lol happy days
I know what the theme is (and downloaded it) but get a load of bands called
The Bois
Bakers Dozen
THE 4skins
ACAB
Skinful
yOU CAN FIND THEM on Youtube and type in DRUNKEN SKINHEAD song
never heard of the bois or skinful
bakers dozen are american i think? and acab are malaysian
I found them on Youtube and I'm NOT racist either, I just like the sound of it.
and ive been actively anti facist (fighting nazis on the streets) since about 85/86
The Oppressed are prolly my fave skin band.....HIGHLY anti nazi
Here we go again TOMMOROW is record store day, and i hate it, its far from what it started out as and is now a cynical money making ploy from the companies :(
Take the list for my local shop
https://www.blackslabrecords.com/recordstoreday2018
Hawkwind - Levetation (£48)
Future sound of london - My kingdom (which i believe is a single) (£29)
and Toy Dolls - Nellie the elephant (single) (£12) you can find the green sleeved copies of this everywhere for 50p and £1, sure i have it at least twice, maybe 3 times lol, admittedly the blue sleeved original is hard to find (dont think ive ever found it out in the wild) but i bet this is for the green sleeved version yet again.
oh and Human League - secrets for £28, sure thats a later crapper album by em :O
Oh well maybe one day if me and the missus ever build a house, I'm making sure it has a bloody huge basement. Then I can start the arduous task of filling it with really cool stuff I'll probably never share with anybody :))
I still buy vinyl but only now and again. My last purchase was a 180gram copy of Deep Purple's first LP called 'Shades of Deep Purple' from HMV.
There's a shop in Glasgow called Missing that sells second hand vinyl/CD's/DVD's etc, i've got a few bits and pieces out of there.
I must start collecting Vinyl
:D
In fact we can all thank British education - at least those of us who were in school 53 - 63 approx. - because you can tell from numerous British bands how their musical tastes were shaped by their music lessons in school. It was part of the curriculum when I was in school, not a choice, something you got whether you wanted to or not. At least I think so but my memory's a bit dodgy that far back and so maybe mum and dad signed me up for it. They made sure I got music lessons extra curricular too, recorder, violin and piano. I'm glad they did, classical music is great.
https://mb.boardhost.com/BikerMike/index.html?1593001131
Freaky **** thought we didn't know he was drunk, and cross dressing :))
I find it entertaining now, I just wish he'd actually taught some music, instead of being so dismissive, and angry all the time. Although to be fair there were about 2 kids in my class who showed any interest, and I wasn't one of them after the first year, it was apparent that lesson was a torture the old crazy perv rather than learn anything....
So you last bought an album in 1984?
Quite a popular album with DP fans (me included).