abusing others abuse of freebies
Working in the ritzy glitzy world of television (pfffffft! snigger), I spent a mind-numbing few years as the postroom monkey. That was almost a freebie itself as I never worked more than 4 hours of the 38 per week I was paid for.
I digress.

The place I worked used to make the main Saturday morning kids show before it rebranded and moved elsewhere. In the transient nature of most telly types, the production team all finished their contracts and fucked off too. Their legacy, as you may call it, was that they seemed to be on all the best mailing lists of record labels and games companies.

I was a little slow on the uptake as it was months after the people left that I opened an unclaimed jiffy-bag addrressed to some forgotten soul and found an x-box game. From then I kept an eagle eye sharpened on every jiffy bag that passed through my torture chamber. Anything not addressed to a current staff member was snaffled and pillaged.

It eventually tailed off, but not before I'd netted myself several PS1 games, about 15 PS2 games, a few dozen CD singles and albums varying between excellent and pure shite and a boatload of that 'mood setting' muzak and sound effects that keyboard ticklers try to earn royalties from.

So these, my friend were 2nd hand freebies that I sort of 'inherited'. Not that it detracts in any way from their quality or value, since many of the items I liberated were in the premier league of freebies, the (decent) music was all pre-release with record label stickers saying so and the games were some sort of pre-release test copies, which were actually full game discs just with no packaging or instruction book. They came in plain CD-single type case, usually a pleasing transparent blue.

(I recognise this waffle deserves a length gag, but can't be arsed to think of one. Please feel free.)
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 17:56, 6 replies)

gagging
is for amateurs, regardless of length!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 18:41, closed)

...
I think Ms. Swipe has just created her new sig.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 13 Nov 2007, 19:03, closed)

It's not a sig
It's a way of life :-)
(RickGrimes Quite frankly, disappointed on, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 19:43, closed)

Or perhaps
a career?
( dan j the filthy bastard, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 21:20, closed)

Free pre release cd's
I went to some social event thingmebobo (think it has something to do with a local radio station) a few years ago and happily snapped up a pre release copy of "Purple Pills" by D12 as well as some other CD's which were rather popular at the time (all a few days before release date ^^)

w00t! lol i was kinda dissapointed that the cd's came in a plain clear case but on the other hand it made them feel more pre-releasey
(chrisdood Why yes, I am the shizzle, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:06, closed)

Reminds me
I did work experience as a team assistant at the Beeb last year.

Apart from the utter aceness of the job (reading the paper was considered worthwhile "research") I also had the opportunity to blag lots of stuff.

One of my jobs was to open the post every morning. This generally consisted of a large mailbag full of books and cds (would to amount to hundreds of the things every week). Once these items were finished with I was able take whatever I wanted.

Xmas presents were sorted last year and I got hundreds of pounds worth of stuff I would of paid for anyway!
(Red Morning Light, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 11:19, closed)