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I shall say here what I said elsewhere

I seem to recall buying CD's from HMV as well in the last twenty years, but because of the internet have seen prices reduced to the point where the music industry has been shown to have been a thieving scoundrel. Unless it's something particularly specialist, I don't expect to pay anything more than about a fiver for a CD. So price rigging or what? Why was I paying upto twenty quid for a CD ten years ago? I'm not even exclusively bought into amazon; the internet can provide you alternatives to high street prices which are great, such as specialist shops. All this is far more convenient than having to deal with Oxford Street, and the shop's limited stock. It can't be as specialist as the internet. And i'm shrugging at it's passing. Except for the bummer to the staff of course. Bad luck guys, but sign of the times.

Perhaps the days of musicians and rock god salaries are gone. It's curious, when I was a teenager I was consumed with an obsession of heavy metal, but there is more going on with life now. The internet has changed everything, and there is no turning back. Music doesn't seem to hold the same value as it once did, short of bothering to go to a concert, to which you still can't avoid buying a physical ticket for, if that's your thing.

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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:24, archived)

Music holds the same value to me as it always has

headphones on in a dimly lit room at night ~~masturbating furiously~~ listening to something that sends shivers down your spine at how complex and beautiful it is, can't beat it, worth every penny.

I think music does more than a still image or a film ever can because it provides more room for your imagination

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HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:28, archived)

This did that to me first time I heard it: youtu.be/NLURgkx5eqg

Still does, most times.

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boris the spider, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:30, archived)

a bit too bumford and sons for me

I've been listening to Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden on loop this evening, still blows me away. Think I might have paid £15 for that in HMV the day it came out, worth 10 times that the number of times I've listened to it since then.

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HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:37, archived)

Idlewild are not Bumfucker and Friends!

Even when Woomble is going off on one on folk. I even bought the Mumford and Sons album (probably from HMV) and rarely have I been more disappointed by something I was assured was "modern folk" (it's not), "fantastic!" (it's not), "harmonious", "ethereal" and all of that rot. Pah.

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boris the spider, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:43, archived)

absolutely

I like Woomble (Secret is my Silence is a good bit of songwriting), but prefer Kris Drever

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mozza, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 9:55, archived)

That is certainly a very good album :)

Probably Patrick Spence is my favourite on there. "Interesting" fact: when you look at who played on that Idlewild track it turns out it was actually the band from the first album, so Drever's on guitar along with Jones and I'd put money on it being cowritten by Drever and McCusker.

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boris the spider, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 10:57, archived)

Funny you should mention Spirit Of Eden

I suddenly thought of it last night for the first time in many years. Probably time to listen to it again I think.

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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 3:16, archived)

That and Laughing Stock never gets old.

I had no idea what to think about either at first, which is usually a good sign to me. That is as powerful as music can possibly get as far as I know.

(Smoked Oysters Yes, magick helmet! And I will give you a sample!, Tue 15 Jan 2013, 5:55, archived)

Fair enough, and I agree to be honest

but it genuinely seems to be less of an importance these days. I tend to only to really have interested in nostalgia from the past. Nothing much interests me that is current

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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:34, archived)