The Internet has ruined nostalgia.
I spent from 1985 to some time in the late 90s being occasionally delighted by an old song I used to like coming on the radio, or a good TV program being repeated on the telly.

Then I got Emule, Limewire etc.

I spent about a week scouring around for all the songs I liked - went through old chart listings, grabbing anything that I wanted. They're all on my ipod.

In the next year or so I downloaded every TV series from my childhood.

Great stuff.

Than I realised, it was like I had an orange that I had sucked all the juice out of. I don't like much modern music, so there was now no point in ever listening to the radio.

TV stations running old programs weren't interesting either, even if they had something I didn't already have, I'd just go and download the whole series, and watch it all in one weekend.

It's not fundamentally a bad thing, but it definitely changed the way I listened to / watched things.
(username failed moderation, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:29, 24 replies)

If it's 'not fundamentally a bad thing' then your opening sentence doesn't make any sense, you self-contradicting spastic.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:42, closed)

That was probably really clever
in your head.
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 8:25, closed)

I should imagine it probably helps if you understand what the word 'ruin' means.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 8:32, closed)

How has it affected your stamp collection and train spotting?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:52, closed)

Listen if you keep on making sarky remarks like this he's gonna fuck yo' shit up by quoting the total number of posts you've made.
I suggest you spare yourself that crushing indignity and say sorry, yeah?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 17:56, closed)

I could always just look at my own profile and do the adding up myself to see if I can stir up any sort of concern about it.
I've still got a shedload of internet mephedrone in the drawer ... I could bang a load and see if that makes me give more of a shit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:01, closed)

I had the exact same thought yesterday
I was in HMV and I realised that the fun of seeing if a particular album you'd wanted for ages happened to be there. Everything being so available lessens the experience somewhat.

However I did hit gold yesterday, I found Land Of Rape And Honey by Ministry. Unfortunately the CD was fucked and the sound was all wrong so I had to take it back.

Although this week Nine Inch Nails have released their first really good album in years, and I can't wait for it to be delivered, even though I've got all the mp3s already. Physical goods just feel better.
(Eukanuba, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:46, closed)

The problem you have with Land Of Rape and Honey' isn't the Cd being fucked..
...it's more that it's shit. It sounded fucking dated in 1993 for fuck's sake.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:57, closed)

I won't argue with that
It's just that when I was 13, my cousin played me some new and exciting music. One was Fixed by NIN, and the other was the Ministry CD.

Most Ministry is either awful 80's electro or far-too-fast-and-abrasive industrial thrash, the late 80s were almost their sweet spot.
(Eukanuba, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 19:26, closed)

They went downhill after Broken.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 20:04, closed)

Wah wah wah
I am suitably upset by your disparagement.
(Eukanuba, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 20:18, closed)

I don't actually have any real opinions, I'm being lolprovocative
Tell me what you think their best work is
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 20:23, closed)

So I suspected
But I'll bite. Either The Downward Spiral or The Fragile. Broken's pretty damn good, it wasn't until I listened to it on acid that I realised just how well-produced it is, a good fifteen years after I'd first heard it.

The new one's called Hesitation Marks and so far it seems that it might be on a par with TDS/TF, but time will tell. You should have a listen to it, it's surprisingly accessible.
(Eukanuba, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 8:57, closed)

I quite liked The Slip
It had the energy of their MOTP-era material
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 10:58, closed)

I think it's pretty much up to the "consumer".
If you like crap you'll get it but I've bought a few* albums due to internet playtime and wanting to pay the artist.
*The only ones I do buy, but I'll not "drop" the names.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 18:57, closed)

I remember trying to get a copy of Jilted Generation off of Napster,
at the back end of the 90's, over dialup. Put me of seeing downloading as a viable way to obtain music.
Now that I have broadband and 3G, I'm in my mid-thirties, and as such have grown out of giving much of a shit about music.
Such is life.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 19:56, closed)

Yes but the vast majority of radio
Is rather shit anyway so you did the right thing. Otherwise you might be like me when listening to it, perpetually annoyed with the rage increasing each time they repeat a song they only played 45 minutes ago, when really it only deserves airtime once every 45 years at best.
(Panzerfaust, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 20:25, closed)

but that electro-type song with "I - don't - care / I love it" as the hook is brilliant!

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 21:16, closed)

Been shut off from the world
for a few weeks so I haven't heard that one
(Panzerfaust, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 1:38, closed)

That is brilliant
I think it was written by a girl named Charlie XCX. I caught her by accident at a festival a few years back and I was really impressed, I'm pleased she's having some proper success.
(Eukanuba, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 9:00, closed)

I'm sure the correct order is to release a popular song, then have it picked up for use in advertising, thus killing your own credibility.
Now it's all done the other way around.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 9:56, closed)

^trudat

(Dr Doctor Can't you see I'm burning burning?, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 10:28, closed)

Nearly 50 years ago, not many homes had a radio playing pop music. My older sister, then a young teenager, and her friends would hang around in the evenings outside the pub in our street hoping somebody'd put their favourite songs on the jukebox.
After a run of Matt Monroe, Val Doonican and Ken Dodd they'd wander off, discouraged.

Then suddenly one of them would catch a note or two of the Stones or the Beatles, or my sister's favourite, Donovan, and alert the others, and they'd all charge down the street together to the pub door to listen.

What great fun they had! I bet they never enjoyed music again as much.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 9:39, closed)

Even better.
Now the equivalent is my phone, sitting 4" from my hand as a type.
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 11:54, closed)