[kj] Peter West Goes Disc Shopping...

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

Yeah, the more effort spent tracking down some rare single always made it 
the more sweet when you finally found the damn thing. Also, before all the 
file-sharing, there was often the opportunity to finally hear some obscure 
b-side... often-times a lost treasure (occasionally merely fools 
gold!).   Ach, it's all too easy nowadays ;-)      All you need is the 
cash... before you needed to WANT it.. BADLY!
Ebay is good for "window-collecting" though... you get to see lots of cool 
stuff, but don't have to part with cash!
Was happy to see a Damned album I have two copies of go for over £1000 
recently though... I can even do "window-selling" now... I imagine getting 
a grand for mine, imagine what I could spend that money on... go through 
and take record off shelf only to think "no, I can't part with it" and put 
it back...

Dave in Auld Reekie




At 16:16 03/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>That said, the advent of the internet has made the world a much smaller 
>place. Rare 7" vinyl that one used to have to scour through dusty basement 
>shops for can now be found with only a few clicks of a mouse. As such, 
>lots of mom'n'pop specialty shops (not the big chain stores) have 
>summarily gone out of business here in NYC (or, at the very least, changed 
>their line of business to internet sales and closed their shops). I 
>actually miss the lost art of scouring through disc shops and record 
>stores, looking for those Holy Grail-like items. I mean, now that I'm 38 
>and married and with a job etc. etc., I obviously don't have the same 
>amount of time to devote to shopping for elusive records, so in that 
>respect, internet shopping is great -- but I do miss the hunt, you know?
>
>Alex in NYC
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>From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2005 3:32 PM
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>I ve just had confirmation that the DVD from dvdpopcorn.co.uk has just been
>dispatched to me, a bargain at GBP 8.95 delivered.
>     I like internet shopping, I'm pleased that I dont have to converse with
>shopkeepers anymore, the chainstores are okay .The student behind the
>counter says 9.99, I give her 10 quid, she snaps it out my hands puts it in
>the till and gives me a penny and a receipt back, and I say "thank-you".
>That's all that is needed to be said.
>    I go into record shops to see if there is anything that I want to buy,
>not to have a conversation or to make friends, dont you find that talking to
>people is just a hassle? A hassle you could do without?
>
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