Owen Massey McKnight ([info]addedentry) wrote,
@ 2003-10-20 14:15:00
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Criminal records
To help [info]j4 remind Oxfam that charity shops are supposed to be cheaper than buying new, and to mitigate her complaints that my last link on this topic dealt only with CDs, here is TV Cream's Vinyl Dissolution.

What do young folk call record shops?

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[info]dakegra
2003-10-20 06:19 am UTC (link)
amazon

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[info]atommickbrane
2003-10-20 06:24 am UTC (link)
We call them HMV or Virgin or SELECTADISC or Rhythm or best of all MISTER CD! Collectively they are all record shops.

TARKUS! Marvy.

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[info]j4
2003-10-20 06:34 am UTC (link)
charity shops are supposed to be cheaper than buying new

If a book is still available new, we do price it cheaper than it would be new. If it's out of print, it's harder to determine its value. Or indeed (since I am a cynic) its price.

What do young folk call record shops?

I've heard young people refer to CD shops. I think generally though I would concur with the other commenters (I want to say "commenteers") that the yoof of today are much more logo-driven, and thus more likely to refer to "Amazon" or "HMV" than "a (record|CD|music) shop".

(Gratuitous pluggery, but I'd just like to recommend opalmusic, an internet record shop who actually sell records.)

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[info]jiggery_pokery
2003-10-20 06:55 am UTC (link)
commenters (I want to say "commenteers")

What's the difference between a comment and a commentary? (Not the feedline for a joke - unless, of course, you think it is.)

Does this not make us all commentators? Eeeeextroooaaardinary. (sic)

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[info]atommickbrane
2003-10-20 08:14 am UTC (link)
Might I add that you have a rather fantastic icon if I do say so myself.

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[info]jiggery_pokery
2003-10-20 08:33 am UTC (link)
How kind!

Here it is again for you :-)

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[info]atommickbrane
2003-10-20 09:06 am UTC (link)
I should see if I can get one of the pixie. Pickle! Pickle the Pixie. Pickle pickle pickle.

(I'm hungry).

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[info]addedentry
2003-10-20 11:00 am UTC (link)
How about a Weather Pixie?

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[info]jiggery_pokery
2003-10-20 11:21 am UTC (link)
Only if they'll tell us the weather at Dunshelm Castle.

Actually, they don't really need a weather forecaster:

Pickle: What's the weather set to be for our next dungeoneer?
Treguard: Ooh... nasty.

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[info]zorac
2003-10-20 07:01 am UTC (link)
I'd agree that Oxfam's book prices are generally well below the 'new' price, but considerably higher than most other charity shops. Their CD prices, however, have recently jumped dramatically to the point where I have seen them on Sale in HMV/Virgin for less (especially singles).

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[info]j4
2003-10-20 07:16 am UTC (link)
Their CD prices, however, have recently jumped dramatically to the point where I have seen them on Sale in HMV/Virgin for less

Really? We don't price CDs any higher than £3.99 (and most are under £2.99), and I rarely see CDs for less than that in HMV/Virgin.

(especially singles).

Ach, CD singles are always overpriced, wherever you buy them! :->

One of our other volunteers was trying to work out whether a CD was a single or an album, and had been whining about it for a while. I glanced at it, saw that it was in a slimline jewel case and had only three tracks on it, said "it's a single", and carried on with what I was doing.
"But it's got three songs on it", she said.
"Well, they do, these days."
"Well, it's not a single, then, is it?"
"Well, think of it more like ... like an EP, then. But they're usually very clearly one 'A-side' and one or more 'B-sides'."
"Well, it's not a single, then. Singles only have two songs -- one on each side."
"Well," I say, trying to escape and defuse, "it's probably just because they can get so much more music on a CD, so they think they might as well put some extra B-sides on."
"But that's not a single, then. You see, you used to be able to buy music on records, and if it was a single, it had one song on each side..."

I didn't actually kill her, but only because I didn't want innocent books to get damaged in the process...

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[info]zorac
2003-10-20 07:25 am UTC (link)
This was in the Summertown shop. I'm fairly sure that that most of the normal albums (as opposed to "Cheap Rip-Off Orchestra plays the Greates Movie Themes" and the like) were £3.99. The clincher was double CDs being priced at double the price, which is rarely the case in HMV et al - this is where they were more expensive than SALE! prices.

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[info]j4
2003-10-20 06:38 am UTC (link)
Oh, and:

I only own one of the records on that list, and that is Tales from Topobloodygraphic Bloody Oceans, and I only bought it because I knew it was "a classic", and therefore I ought to own it. And it was only £1.50, and I HAVE NEVER PLAYED IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH because I couldn't even stand two songs' worth of its tedious whiny whale-saving fretwanking before wanting to hurl it across the room.

There. I feel better now. :-)

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[info]atommickbrane
2003-10-20 06:44 am UTC (link)
Time and a Word is better!! Then again I have "Rick Wakeman's CRIMINAL RECORD" (do you SEE???) clogging up my record boxen. NB it is my flatmates but I think she doesn't really want it either. I have never listened to it.

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[info]addedentry
2003-10-20 07:02 am UTC (link)
I always think 'Rick Wakeman' is a filthy spoonerism, and it never is.

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[info]ericklendl
2003-10-20 07:40 am UTC (link)
No, it isn't. You're thinking of Buck's Fizz.

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[info]gnimmel
2003-10-20 08:36 am UTC (link)
Rick Wakeman! The perpetrator of the one true record about King Arthur which has moogs in! I have listened to that and it's very amusing. Apart from all the cringeworthy and boring parts, that is.

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[info]boyofbadgers
2003-10-20 09:37 am UTC (link)
You forgot the best bit: it was performed on ICE!

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[info]cybersofa
2003-10-20 07:47 am UTC (link)
Just one here, and any charity shop that wants my copy of You Broke My Heart In 17 Places will have to prise it from my cold dead fingers.

I'm not including YCDTOSA Nos 1 to 98 because I don't think it counts (and I'm missing the last 92 volumes), and ignoring the vaguely derogatory reference to Pump Boys And Dinettes because they obviously haven't a clue what they're talking about.

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