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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 wasted 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 forced 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.