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Moe, Selectadisc closes later this month after forty years. The owners blame the usual.
Turning into a pretty gruesome year, isn’t it.
oh no; this is dreadful…where am I going to get decent music from?
…it’s the end of an era…..jeeez; I need a coffee…
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homen … ticle.html
It’s a lovely article Moe.
I remember buying a green vinyl copy of Motorhead’s seminal headbanger "Overkill" from there in 1980 and as a bookend, an imported DVD of Ingrid Pitt in "The Vampire Lovers" three weeks ago.
Always makes me pee when people express surprise about something closing. You can often ask people expressing sadness whether they’ve visited the recently deceased emporia. They usually avoid your gaze.
The owner makes it clear that he feels downloaders have killed Selectadisc. "Ninety five percent of music is downloaded for free online", he says. People didn’t buy enough stuff there so it has to shut: ancient consumer physics as immutable as death and taxes.
And it’s the Tragedy of the Commons writ large, Moe. I wrote about the Tragedy of the Commons on here and in other environments to a zero response. Fundamentally, the Tragedy is all about the needs of the individual superceding the needs of the wider group.
Betfair is the classic example. You don’t need to be Sophocles to work out that if everyone migrated to Betfair, horse racing would be dead in five years in its current form.
Claiming for imaginary thawed freezers on house insurance is another example. Largescale deforestation is a much more serious and saddening case where the Tragedy reveals it’s cancerous tendrils.
And it all starts with just one person convincing themselves that their action doesn’t matter.
"Oh, it won’t matter if I take this tree/free download/insurance claim. It’s only ME".
From the very first Napster download, Selectadisc was a dead duck, even though a nice imported CD of, say, "Made In Japan" by Deep Purple with a sleeve, and notes, and a shiny disc you can shave in front of, was available last week at an unprincely seven quid.
To save independent bookshops and emporia like Selectadisc there has to be a change in the focus in how we consume – and why we consume.
I’ll put my soapbox away now.
I love the internet; I’ve made some amazing friends almost by accident using it and for information it’s priceless, but I make a point of buying cd’s from shops [albeit supermarkets if it’s chart stuff which I shouldn’t do], but I always buy books from Waterstones even though it costs a bit more..the thought of not being able to walk around a book shop fills me with horror…I said recently to my family that we must all make a point of, if we like a particular shop or restaurant, going there more often..if everyone did that it may just make a difference.
I am a fan of good lyricists.
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Peter Hammill and Peter Gabriel possibly the best I’ve come across – certainly in the rock/folk genre, but none of those four great intellectuals have included the word COLLOCATE in any of their cerebral songs – well, not as I am aware anyway.
But David Bowie has !
I’ve even scoured Jon Anderson’s obscure back catalogue – but no, not even the cosmic Lancastrian has written it down in song.
Surely someone else has ?
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There isn’t "Himself".
David Bowie is the only one.
Regards – Matron
Thank you Matron. I can sleep contented now.
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Please can share with us your memories about Genesis gigs at GIN MILL BLUES CLUB in Godalming 1970?
Thankyou
Well Gerald,I did see Dave Gilmour mentioned in this thread,and fully appreciate the help he gave a young Kate in getting signed to EMI.
And a merry happy to you.
Got tickets to see Jethro Tull next March [week after Cheltenham].omigod; just realised it will be forty years after seeing them for the first time!
Can’t mention the ‘Tull at this time of year without playing this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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