(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:58,
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I've got the 76Mb infinity and it works well.
However. The last time I checked all this crap. Sky was the best deal if you wanted their telly. I don't do telly so it's not worth it.
Virgin are packet scanning first to do the governments bidding cunts.
The internet. its shit when you live far away from stuff.
Edit: I don't think living in London is worth Internet. Go out and live the dream that I can't have.. What do you do for work there? Is there are jobs?
(FeralCatManUnusual disease collector.,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:10,
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My tables, they shine.
(atomicA-bomb-a-nation,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 0:08,
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What's the gramaphone on then?
{:-p
(FeralCatManUnusual disease collector.,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 0:32,
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Singing into an online music identifier
just isn't the same as embarrassing a teenage member of staff.
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:21,
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Awww
Crikey, that picture really reminds me of my dog when he was a pup.
(FlowerpotNo longer has the vapours thanks to DTH,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:40,
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^_^
(prodigy69broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 0:46,
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We were jus sayin, will there be any shops at all?
(edjogsCollared doves are shit.,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:45,
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never really understood why they started selling shitty headphones and toys instead of CDs
(alpacamuffalo bozzerella,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:46,
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desperation
they couldn't compete with the tax dodging Play, Amazon and co I guess
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:46,
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yea i suppose
i don't normally give a shit about shops, but i've got good memories of sifting through the HMV bargain bins when i was a teenager in search of some cheapo gem...
(alpacamuffalo bozzerella,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:49,
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everyone (of merit) has good memories of a record shop
HMV oxford street was a mecca to me when I was a nipper
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:51,
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I did buy a 12" of Moloko's 'Sing it Back' from there.
That, in my humble opinion, was the point when HMV stopped being a record store.
When you couldn't find what you wanted and more significantly, couldn't discover anything new. Unfortunately there's no place for niche if your business model is stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap*.
HMV Media Group were utterly dreadful employers in their later years. Sad to think about the reality their employees are facing though.
*I don't believe they wanted to go down this route but needs must I guess.
Ironic though that 15 years ago, the little independant record stores were closing down because of HMV and Virgin
It's just a sign of how things have gone.
(h3donisttryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega..,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:03,
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90 years ago HMV was that little independent store
it's always going to be survival of the fittest/better at dodging taxes
I'm more bothered by the fact that it's probably the end of Fopp (for the second time)
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:13,
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^this^
I'll shed more tears for Fopp than I ever will for HMV
(Joe Scaramangawith a G-double-O-D vibration,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:55,
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You only pay corporation tax on your profits
...so the corp tax avoidance doesn't really come into play, as they will have paid the same corporation tax as Amazon, i.e. bugger all tax on bugger all profit.
HMV did, however, try to get out of paying VAT by importing goods through Gurnsey.
it seemed to be all Dr Dre headphones and IPads when I last looked
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:21,
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Dear Lord
I don't think even people tripping on overpriced coffee are daft enough to buy Dr Dre headphones, which so far as I can tell are mushily bass-heavy headphones whose parts cost about six quid, sold for £120.
Maybe the coffee shop will flog off some iPods.
Actually I was in that HMV perhaps a year back, I don't remember a coffee shop :( It might have made the experience slightly more pleasant because it was a horrible place to be otherwise.
The Grafton Centre is, as you say, a hole. I prefer going to the Fopp now instead, even though it's much smaller. I'm sure they're missing out on custom by no longer being in Lion Yard.
(The Empressit seems you CAN polish a turd!,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 10:51,
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dre headphones: fragile.
got my son a pair at crimbo, snapped yesterday. oh well, he'll have to look like jack duckworth for a while...
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:39,
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I got some Audio Technica ATH M50s for my birthday
They're fantastic headphones, albeit somewhat pricey. Call me old-fashioned but I quite like headphones with pretty much a flat response.
I know it's wishful thinking but I'd love councils to try some things to encourage the high streets to fill with independent shops again. Maybe relief of business rates, free parking after 2pm etc. Our council tax has been frozen for three years - I'd much rather start paying a modest increase if the council used the money to promote local business.
At our college we used to run business startup courses and they were always absolutely packed, so the demand and the inspiration is there - it's just the tough market conditions and huge rates that prevent them from starting.
(h3donisttryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega..,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:22,
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the council's approach to encouraging retail growth in the city centre
is stopping ikea from building a store anywhere near sheffield. ever.
(polished turd404 pixels wide,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:45,
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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.
(JahledThree shades of black,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:24,
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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
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:28,
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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.
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:37,
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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.
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.
I suddenly thought of it last night for the first time in many years. Probably time to listen to it again I think.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 3:16,
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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 OystersYes, magick helmet! And I will give you a sample!,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 5:55,
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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
(JahledThree shades of black,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:34,
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Who cares?
HMV must have put an awful lot of independent record stores out of business. Fuck 'em.
...but I do feel sorry for the poor sods that worked in the stores.
(HalibutIf you think education is expensive, try crack.,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:23,
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I concur with 4Q:
if anything I wanted to hear wasn't in their 'charts' or sales, they couldn't find their arses with both hands and a search team, and they made it obvious that they couldn't give a fuck about trying to find it either.
(uncle bastardis twanging a dan moi,
Wed 16 Jan 2013, 17:15,
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Couldn't care less about the actual HMV stores
being as they're overpriced, corporate grief-holes with absolutely no understanding of music.
BUT, they do own Fopp... and I care about Fopp. Fopp is the last real, physical shop that I get that rush of 'ooohhh... I'm going to buy myself something good' excitement from. So yep, sad times.
(Mr EraserheadWhy aren't you a lemon?,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 8:55,
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I'd have more sympathy if they hadn't been pulling one of those "gift cards are worthless after X years" stunts.
Yeah, in my book, that's stealing my families cash; and will NOT earn you any goodwill from me. I could just about understand some sort of gradual balance erosion to account for the colossal cost of storing a few bytes of data all that time; I could tolerate it if the balance had gone to charity; but not helping yourselves to the lot without notice. Gits.
(The Incredible SulkFinally remembered his password on,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 13:58,
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yep
the timing was obviously planned; 1. get everyone to shell out for gift cards over xmas as presents 2. stop accepting gift cards asap for maximum profit
(Spunky McPunknot dead yet,
Tue 15 Jan 2013, 14:09,
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I like matches I like wood, He likes various consumer goods, Some are electric, some are not, Interestingly enough supplied in shops, I like peaches, I like pears, Import, export, he don't care, I recently purchased a video recorder, Interestingly enough supplied by mail order.
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 21:55,
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Oh Noes!
News: Palestinian model shot dead in Israel.
(edjogsCollared doves are shit.,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 17:58,
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Age is no excuse, I'm 47, but snow in the UK is a novelty and a treat if it only lasts for a couple of days....
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 16:23,
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It's true, you do get a bit tired of it here after a few months :D
Also most of it turned to ice quite a while back and the fall we had today was just about enough to turn the roads horribly slippery again and not enough to start building things. But there are big piles of snow scattered around. I might go to the park tomorrow and steal snow from one of the piles and build a snow cock or something sophisticated and adult like that.
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 16:34,
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Oh, God! The lies! The lies!
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 18:18,
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Hmm, not sure how I'd build a snow internet fanny works
Fanny works I might just be able to manage, though it would both be a bit abstract and rather obscene, but an internet fanny works I'm not sure. I could take my old router, which doesn't work and only wanted to talk in German anyway, and put that at the end, I guess...
woah! it's the paper fella I saw ages ago, but from another angle!
but from another angle!
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:24,
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Bet he always travels single file to hide his numbers..
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:29,
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He bloody HATES Krayt Dragons...
(Jabberwocmisses D.R. and Quinch,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:44,
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I find them alright with a little ketchup but struggle to eat a whole one...
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 16:13,
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it's a different paper fella
I went on a searching mission when I saw your pic, and finally found the artist Nick Georgiou. He's done a few paper fella statues, and the photos have been in my hummus folder ever since! :-)
(ferret-> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:38,
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cool, he always struck me a family man
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:42,
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Sex on acid is bad Mkay...
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:30,
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(atomicA-bomb-a-nation,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:12,
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(The Silent Channelis getting his recommended 5-a-day,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:18,
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needs more swans
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 16:41,
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that reminds me i have a b3ta bunker animation to finish
(prodigy69broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:22,
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The B3ta bunker is in Finland?
EDIT: you ninja edittted
(da5id<YOUR SIG HERE>,
Mon 14 Jan 2013, 15:37,
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