SEMI HIP 40 YR OLD SELLS CD COLLECTION.

firefinga

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lots of Björk of course,
David Holmes
Maurizio
Cornershop
the one Melvins CD he bought out of some favourable review
Erykah Badu
Torque/V-classics/Reprazent/Timeless (all 4 or at least Timeless, bc Jungle was supposed to be the future)
Sleater Kinny
wu-Tang Clan
Daft Punks "Homework"
Missy Eliott
 
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A Tribe Called Quest
Freestyle Fellowship
Palace Brothers
Liz Phair
Penelope Houston
Paul Weller "Wild Wood"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Ice Cube - out of solidarity with the authentic voice from the getto (coul have been Ice-T too)
Beastie Boys
Big Chief
Butthole Surfers
Jane's Addiction
 
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Nightmares on Wax "Smoker's Delight"
Tricky "Maxinquaye"
Rockers Hi-Fi
Blur, but only "The Great Escape"
PJ Harvey
Boss Hog
Garbage
Towa Tei "Future Listening!"
Mo Wax compliations
 
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luka said:
Which trends has he seen come and go? Did he buy into them?
Turntablism? (no, too nerdy)
Easy listening/lounge revival? (herb alpert lp from Sue ryder for a laugh? But doesn't own turntable??)
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Most definitely Easy Listening - bc it was so ironic

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Postmodern ctheory trip-hop? Spooky etc? 'illbient'
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Most definitley, bc it was the connection of academia and "DJ Culture"

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Digital hardcore?
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too juvenile/sloganeering
 
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luka said:
It's 25 years of CD purchase. It's approximately 100-250 CDS. It's a slice of cultural history. It's a time capsule.
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Won't be 25 years though, he would have started in the early 1990s, being very interested in music of course, leading to buying 3-5 CDs per month possibly, but after entering college (around 2000) he would have gone down to 1-2 per months. In 2003 he got broadband and immediately got soulseek (and gotten himself an I-Pod), meaning he gave up buying CDs altogether after a two, three year period of buying 3,4 "The Big Release" CDs of the years. Last CD ever he bought: MIA's "Arular".
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Well where would we be without a good bit of middle-class self-loathing?
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If you're insinuating the self-loathing middle class thing is the hidden agenda of this thread, I don't see it as that. But there's the "problem" if you will that comes with the territory of being a "semi" (or "full blown") Hipster, and that's the fact such Hipster types never fully identify/love the music they are buying/listening to. They do it bc it's "cool" and "hip".
 
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A Cinematic Orchestra album from before the popular one.

A broken beat compilation

A couple of fabriclives.

He liked that song from a few years back with the video where that bloke was naked in body paint

A frank sinatra compilation

He probably downloaded a Black Coffee mix in 2014

Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem

Rufus Wainright

Mos Def

DJ Shadow- Endtroducing

Goldie’s album after Timeless

He saw the cover of Coltrane’s Sound at a mate's house and his mate said he could have it. He never got round to listening to it. The mate had never got round to listening to it either.

A couple of albums by the streets

That Annie Lennox Christmas album from a few years ago

krugar and dorfmeister

beck

tracy chapman

florence and the machine

fugees

that lauryn hill album

a dj kicks

that juff buckley album

a motown compilation

that song that goes “sexy boy” from the late 90’s

Wu tang clan- the w

a morrisey solo album
 
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firefinga said:
If you're insinuating the self-loathing middle class thing is the hidden agenda of this thread, I don't see it as that. But there's the "problem" if you will that comes with the territory of being a "semi" (or "full blown") Hipster, and that's the fact such Hipster types never fully identify/love the music they are buying/listening to. They do it bc it's "cool" and "hip".
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This keeps coming up on this board but I don't think it's right really. People, on the whole, like stuff cos they like it. I've got loads of the CDs in this thread, and I liked some and didn't like others. I didn't pretend to like any of them.

Obviously there's issues of identity and projection but they're no less true of the truth tellers of Dissensus or the people who buy CDs in Tesco than of hip or semi hip 40 year olds.

Tom, 38
 
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hucks said:
This keeps coming up on this board but I don't think it's right really. People, on the whole, like stuff cos they like it. I've got loads of the CDs in this thread, and I liked some and didn't like others. I didn't pretend to like any of them.

Obviously there's issues of identity and projection but they're no less true of the truth tellers of Dissensus or the people who buy CDs in Tesco than of hip or semi hip 40 year olds.

Tom, 38
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Yeah but I am referring to the "hipster" type as I define it: the guy (it's always a guy, right?) who buys stuff based on that notion of being "cool" stuff. Usually, those guys used to get the idea of what's "cool" from certain music media. I mean this phenomenon is pretty dead by now, but it had it's heydays in the 1990s until early 2000s.

And then there is the guy genuinly interested in current popular music, or the bit more sophisticated elements as the chart fodder.
 
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yeah, exactly. i think he's doing it form memory though. loses his way a bit with page 2, but then he brings it back again. it must be from memory.
 
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It's savage. Describes perfectly several people I know. The moment you see the thread title, you whisper 'Moon Safari'.
 
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No thread has ever killed me like this thread. I can't work out which one hurts the most but I think it's Lee Perry Arkology. I bought that. I showed off to the girls in 6th form. I've given it to a charity shop.
 
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It's like those starter packs and "That guy who... " memes Corpse was on about a while back,
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I was thinking that when I saw this twitter post a while back taking down "that guy who..." followed by a load of cultural markers. And yes they all applied to me and yes it stung!

But I also thought well you could say that about anyone, just change the signifiers.
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hucks said:
No thread has ever killed me like this thread. I can't work out which one hurts the most but I think it's Lee Perry Arkology. I bought that. I showed off to the girls in 6th form. I've given it to a charity shop.
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Well that will be a lucky find for someone! Timeless and amazing music.
 
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