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I approach him with my Grantz Graf DVD/CD in hand t oa cool and wise looking attendent at the Southend HMV in Queens Road I hand him the CD Me:Cheers mate HMV guy: Your the only person mad enough to listen to that around here along with me! ME: You into Autechre then? HMV guy: Yeah, i love 'em, there better live than in the studio. I prefer their old stuff like Incunabula, thats a brilliant album. Me: Yeah i got that. Cool album! You like Aphex Twin? HMV Guy: Yeah i do (at this point i unbutton my shirt to show him my black Rephlex top, he smiles) Yeah my best mate use to live right next to him. Used to go round there, and Richard (Aphex) would just stand outside and look at the stars. Me: Oh cool, (he hands me the CD back) cheers mate HMV Guy: Have a good day mate |
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Is that the HMV near the Doc Martens store? Last summer I wanted to buy the On remix single (except the CD box had the normal single in it). I asked the guy and , well, he didn't have a clue! "Er, no, we probably don't have the other CD." Great story, eh? |
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lol fantastic |
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what rich and fulfilling lives you lead. |
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i just thought it was intresting. I mean this is Southend where EVERYONE is either into Crappy Dance or Metal. No one listens to Aphex Twin |
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thats cool ive never had a good conversation with anyone from those bigger stores. they usually havent heard of anything I buy, but I almost always only buy from indie stores. |
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I do that too. prices are lower, shops are less shitty, etc. |
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here in Auckland the copies of Gantz Graf EP are in the latest release display shelf in the Borders along with all the pop and the rock etc shocked the hell outa me! |
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when i bought my copy.. the cute girl at the coutner asked 'have you heard this yet?' me: 'yeah some of it' her 'oh how is it?' me 'pretty good...kinda rougher than their older stuff' her 'rougher?' me 'yeah..some parts get kinda brutal actually' her 'wow, really? it looks like such a gentle album' (reffering to the cover) i guess my friend also had a brief discussion with her as to what the best squarepusher album is once too.. there seems to be a whole bunch of people who work at the local store who are into cool stuff |
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what's so cool about autechre or squarepusher? :) |
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cool....these people probably don't have any idea of what our part of world is like... Is that the big record shop on the corner; not far from WHSmiths?....haven't been to Southend since last Xmas... |
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i know, really.. actually..the girl at the videostore across the hall from that music store is even cooler..she's been to a raffi concert |
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Yeah it is Jand, thats the one |
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I went to this music shop in cambridge, with envane, and the guy behind the counter said, "Autechre, they are wierd man. I saw them up in Manchester once, they were so wierd, but great." And another time in HMV, i had a convo with a worker about afx after getting AB3, and he said that he ordered it. |
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HMV is an overpriced store. They do have the best selection though. |
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There is this new place called fopp in Cambridge. A singel is £3, EP £5, album £10, rarity or multi-cd £15.# Good value. |
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I got my Gak EP and Quoth clear vinyls BRAND NEW from some place in London a couple of years ago for £3.99 each. Bet I couldn't do that now. And when the Mike & Rich LP came out, I trawled virtually every record store in North Wales for it, and eventually found it sitting on the new releases shelf in 'Our Price' - the last place I ever thought of looking. |
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I found it interesting :) |
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We know exactly what essex is like ;) I know I asked you before, is it really like it's portrayed in the film "essex boys"? |
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yes totslly - things are just like they are in films ... people in record shops are always into music - rather than pop stuff which is dull and silly |
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what was his friend's address?!! |
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I dunno hedphelym...i wanted to get it Jand + Ceri : Thank you both once again for backing me up, bless you two |
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thats cool..... i actually work in a HMV in west sussex, and obviously im into all this WARP shit! Also, one of my collegues loves aphex, and the guy who worked before me used to be an Ae head and told me he saw them live when i met him briefly. but whenever im working no one comes in for any of that. It all pop crap, metal crap and other crap. |
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Really like the avatar grinningcat And interesting story as well |
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I walked into a tower records once (i know, its bad) and bought squarepusher -big loada. the guy at the front was like "squarepusher? what is that, death metal or something?" fucking idiot |
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bognor regis? i lived in that hell town for a while (full of peodis and smack heads) all the staff at the local record store were well into it when i ordered obscure12's |
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Well at least he tried to talk to you and didnt just glare at you like most people do at record shops |
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yeah. it was weird though. then i told him it was electronica and he kind of twitched and then sighed. |
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maybe he was into extreme metal |
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maybe he was. its better than the time when i went into a record store, asked for LFO, and the guy gave me a weird look and took me to the pop/easy listening section. I felt like kind of an idiot for not specifying which LFO. |
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yeah...well where i live, you get your ass beat down for not liking bubba sparkks emimem and all country pop |
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