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Gibberings CLXVII - Mountains of Shit Day in Day Out

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I bought a newly-released album on CD for £12 the other day. Yes, people still do that, pay for music - not everybody's a freeloading parasite. At least not all of the time. ;)

In the late nineties I was routinely paying £16 for things that were originally released in the sixties. The major record companies deserved everything they got.

The silly prices did provide a good and easy living for shoplifters though, I must say.
 
I bought a Bob Dylan CD myself only last week. (It cost £2.20, i think its remastered and all that, sounds far too good for something originally recorded in 1964 8o)

I must admit ive done a bit of freeloading. I dont feel guilty in the least though, i bought loads of reecords in my teens, and of the music that i had d/l i paid to see them live anyway, even bought the proper CD aswell if i really liked/ supported a band.
 
I was the opposite, I used to download all my music for free in my teens. :D

I pay for nearly all my music these days, which means my collection is growing a lot slower than it used to. I want to support the bands.

Spotify, although obviously an improvement on the Napster side of things, is a bit of a joke royalties wise. Lady Gaga got paid £108 for 1,000,000 plays of Poker Face.
 
I'm not innocent of dodgy musical downloads either, although a significant amount of that stuff is bootleg recordings or unreleased / deleted stuff which wouldn't be available anyhow.

If I know an artist (rather than a multinational recording giant) is really depending on the income rather than living off an advance which they probably won't have to pay off for a decade or two, I'm more than happy to part with the cash for their records as well as going to see them live.

Good point about paying to see the musicians live, MDB. I think a lot of major label artists now use their album to advertise a tour, whereas it was the complete opposite when I were a lad.
 
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Morning folks,

Glad to say I slept like a baby last night... almost 7 hours continuous sleep and the back to sleep for another hour.

Feeling rather chipper today, have a great day all. :)
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Morning, same to you mate
 
Really should do some more job/agency applications today. Of the 3 i registered with last week 2 of them send me a link telling me to register somewhere else :!, another sent me details of a 4 week contract (possibilty to be ongoing vacancy) but i fucked up the covering letter for that job. Still had the details in it of a job that i had applied for months ago and not this new one, i hadnt done any applications for a while so need to get into the obviously necessary habit of double checking everything before i send it. I've lost count of the amount of times ive sabotaged applications for good vacancies like this. 8(

Fuck the job apps, that dog wont stop barking again, so off to play some pool first. :sus: Made a total clearance in practice the other day, but felt as if it 'didnt count' because a couple of the positional shots in the middle of the break were incredibly lucky and totally unforseen that i would fluke my way into being perfectly on the next ball, twice in succession. 8(
 
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Morning, folks! Anything happening, other than torrential rain?

Oh.. it's not morning anymore, apparently. Oops. :)
 
It was still morning until 12:59, so you didn't miss by much. The clocks may have gone forward for Daylight Saving, but nobody told the Sun. We're pretending it's an hour later than it really is, is all. Why we have to fart-arse around changing the clocks, instead of just opening for business an hour earlier and closing an hour earlier in Summer, is beyond me. There's nothing magic about starting work at 09:00 and finishing at 17:00 -- except that back in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, a man (because it was a man, in those days; it would take a World War to show that women could pull our weight) who worked in one of the new factories or offices that were springing up all over the place would have enough light to shave before starting work.

Anyway, if you were on the same longitude as Greenwich, the Sun would be passing directly overhead at 13:00 in the Summer. So from 12:00 to 12:59 is still technically morning.

There's also something like 15 minutes' difference between Solar time in Deal and Zennor, due simply to the width of the UK. Isambard Kingdom Brunel twigged to this, as the GWR spanned enough longitude to make enough difference to miss a train; so he had all the station clocks on his railway synchronised with the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
 
It's okay, I was up at 9am, just not clock-watching as I'm a dragon of leisure now. :)

Waiting to figure out today's plans.. ponder.
 
Yay, another total clearance on the pool table, I'll soon be able to take on Rogan Josh. (If he didnt live in London):\

Managing to play a much more controlled game now, and not getting carried away with myself. I need to find a 'winner stays on' bar in Manchester. Any locals know of any bars where they do that in Manchester?

The Grand Central used to do that occassionally but the 5,000 decibel death metal music they started playing has put me off that place. Despite some gothic chick walking into the ladies with just bare stockings on and nothing else, i was waiting for her to come back out, but she never did, dont know how i could have missed her if she did. 8(
 
Grand Central took offence to my friends and I taking over the jukebox and milking the cheese rock tunes. They probably thought we were taking the piss, but we were serious.

Can't help you on the pool front, unfortunately. The Castle on Oldham Street used to be good for that prior to gentrification. You could smoke a spliff in the back room an' all.
 
I did find a likely looking place, it had an underground room in a pub where there was a great atmosphere and a pool table, no spliffy smells going on, though i spose you cant have everything. Unfortunately i was so benzoed/stimmed/pissed up i cant for the life of me remember where the place was. :!
 
Yeah, the Castle is a nice little pub but always packed when I've been there. And I love GC but it's a shame the beer selection is shite. Have you not tried the Salisbury?
 
Good point - The Solly has pool tables.

It also has Prime Mover by Zodiac Mindwarp on the jukebox, and the beer's okay. Plus the toilets were the first ever place I took drugs in.
 
I used to go to The Salisbury a lot when i first came to Manchester, all the teenage goths and punks used to hang out round the back of the GC there. The pool table in the salisbury was boarded up last time i went iirc, but I'll make it a port of call on my next night out, cheers for the suggestion.
 
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