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dsfadsfgafgf.xyz - the golden era (mark II) - Wed 14 Apr 2021
The *ninety's* was that golden era, not because it was particularly special or was it?
Well if your an avid Charity shop dweller and you came up threw the 90's it was pretty dammed great.
We got all the top quality 70's Mark&Spencer cloth's all the Jeans, all the shirt's all
the everything that was out of style and or to small for the old fat bastards that
could now longer fit into it and most of it was brand new.
We also got a prodigious amount of vinyl records and the audio equipment to play it
on. Some times we'd even get this stuff out of the shop's bin's. Now I think of it
it was pretty crazy. I've had arguments standing next to a bin about who gets what.
These day's most this stuff would be on Ebay as "Vintage" or "Retro".
During the 90's most of this stuff was just old rubbish. But not to us.
The introduction of the Compact disc really played into our hand's, you could get
entire back catalogues of artists for a few quid. I was listening to things like Napalm Death
and would never have gone out and consciously brought a bunch of Stevie Wonder albums or
Rod Steward albums (to name a couple) if it wasn't for Charity shops.
I'd have missed out on a massive musical education and some great Album Art to boot.
With that said, I believe we have recently hit an epoch. Without expounding greatly
on the reasons why this epoch seems to have been brought forward. I think it's far
to say that a new technology has just come into peoples homes hard and fast.
Streaming Movie services are probably doing quite alright out of this Covind1984 as
millions of people seem quite happy to sit at home receiving Super Dole and watching the
on demand idiot box.
This has had a knock on effect. With an on demand service you don't need all those
DVD's laying around or those pesky BluRays for that matter. The people that went out
and waisted there money on these thing's in the first place are usually the same
people only to happy to swap them out for whatever is on trend albeit a force trend.
This isn't the era of the *BluRay* just yet. Though they have played their part in recant
years to flood charity shops with DVD's and are coming in a close second.
But now the humble DVD is showing it's age. And when a technology starts to show it's age,
it either goes in the bin or into a charity shop and as an avid Charity shop dweller
I'm taking full advantage of the situation.