MrMessiah wrote:Hey don't sweat 25. The way I looked at it, 24-27 is all still mid-20s. Yeah, you're in for a crisis when you get to 28 and can't call yourself "mid-20s" any more, but that way you get all the bad vibes out of the way by the time you hit 30 and can celebrate that milestone properly.
yeah ill cling to that view haha. i dont think its so much my age just the amount of stuff ive managed to screw up. i thought my life would be sorted by this age! im annoyed pretty much nothing has worked out like i hoped it would.
Ranting? Oh, yeah...
I've spent the last couple of weeks travelling to nearby towns to check out independent record shops and it's fucking depressing to see the state of it now compared to back when I were a lad, going to Selectadisc in Nottingham every weekend. I know we live in the digital age now, and I've got more great stuff just of Twoismers' Soundclouds the last week than since I can remember. But I really miss the experience of digging through racks and finding an EP by someone you missed first time around, or just some album by someone you've never heard of, you take it to the front and get them to put it on headphones for you.
So much good music I found through those places... and now it's HMV or vintage LP collector places selling stuff like Simon and Garfunkel and jazz / big band stuff. HMV are pretty much the target of my irrational hate, for squeezing out the competition and then deciding they wanted to sell playstation games and DVDs instead. If it's not top 40 in there, it's not there. Oh there's a dance rack, but that's 4 foot of rackspace of mainly Ministry of Sound CDs. What in the fuck happened?
the recession killed off the only remaining places i knew of. however i think theres still one standing in norwich. not much use to me being in loughborough and all..