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Grievous Angel

Beast of Burden
Any minute now I'm gonna blow 50 quid at soundquake on every cut of pepperseed and big up I can get my hands on...

I haven't bought any records for over a year, I'm due for some payback.
 

Chef Napalm

Lost in the Supermarket
mms said:
i'm very well aware of the other kind of person, the old raver who spends all their money collecting first gen chicago and detroit records and for whom nothing else surpasses them.

You've got it wrong.

The 50 quid man refers principally to someone who is desperately trying to stay in touch by shopping at HMV and Amazon.com , NOT someone who collects obscure *glances at Woebot* titles from the past. Your ex-raver scours thrift shops and combs eBay for the types of records he's looking for. For him, setting foot in an HMV would be akin to country line-dancing.

Well, maybe not THAT extreme, but you get the idea.
 

mms

sometimes
Chef Napalm said:
You've got it wrong.

The 50 quid man refers principally to someone who is desperately trying to stay in touch by shopping at HMV and Amazon.com , NOT someone who collects obscure *glances at Woebot* titles from the past. Your ex-raver scours thrift shops and combs eBay for the types of records he's looking for. For him, setting foot in an HMV would be akin to country line-dancing.

yes i know!!!!
thats why i said he was the other kinda person, comparing him to 50 quid man using the words *i am aware of the other kind of person*

the original idea proposed by be.jazz was that we're all getting a bit like 50 quid man.

keep up!

:p
 

Loki

Well-known member
50 quid man? haven't spent 50 quid for ages....for what it's worth I think OMM is an honourable (free; important that - we're not paying for it's cultural authenticity) failure....nine chunks better than the NME etc and they're trying hard(ish) with the reviews (the Volga one set me searching)...and as for blogging well I was discussing the other day with a fellow blogger that it's just a way of playing records around your friends house when you don't have any friends who buy records any more and as such has a comforting nostalgia that settles me as i dip into middle age... i mean, all these posts that start: 'I'm not that familiar with the Croydon Grime Scene...' - of course you're not; you're a 32 year old Dad of three and you live in Hemel Hempstead.
 
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be.jazz

Guest
mms said:
the original idea proposed by be.jazz was that we're all getting a bit like 50 quid man.
What I meant to suggest is that as serious music people, surely we spend a fair amount of money on music, unless you're slsk'ing everything and not going to any shows, surely we easily spend as much as 50 quid man, even if it's not in one go. But if it's actually about middle-brow anxiety, then the point is moot.
 
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simon silverdollar

Guest
i spend fuck all on music. i just listen to the radio.
 

mms

sometimes
be.jazz said:
What I meant to suggest is that as serious music people, surely we spend a fair amount of money on music, unless you're slsk'ing everything and not going to any shows, surely we easily spend as much as 50 quid man, even if it's not in one go. But if it's actually about middle-brow anxiety, then the point is moot.



i thought you were highlighting the behavioural activities and purchases of said gentleman of the 50 english sterling, i was simply comparing and contrasting that with the behavioural patterns of another demographic/stereotype, the die hard acid daze obsessive, of a similar age, but with a different hunting instinct with the anxiety sublimated into unwavering nostalga. A different beast indeed and hardly any use to todays marketeers.

I think personally i probably buy less records and spend less money nowdays because i'm more selective about what i buy, if it's an older rarerer object then i might spend more money on it, if its a contemporary record it has to be great, or fit into to some kinda "investigation" i'm pretending i'm carrying out. :)
 

grimly fiendish

Well-known member
in my humble opinion ...

... better a mass-market, mildly interesting, at-least-they're-trying-what-do-you-want-blood? magazine such as OMM than a smug, holier-than-thou, let's-be-obscure-to-mask-our-social-inadequacy pile of piss like the wi [+++NO CARRIER]
 
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