Originally Posted by erictheweary
At least I'm Moseley, we still maintain a veneer of working-class / bohemia.
last time I went to Moseley I bought two veggie delights from Subway and the guy behind the counter quizzed me whilst I was waiting about not eating meat and said he thought it was weird.I am now frightened to go back to Moseley in case I get quizzed/criticised on any more aspects of my personal choices.
At least I'm Moseley, we still maintain a veneer of working-class / bohemia.
Anyway, charity shops - try Stratford-on-Avon, has the poshest charity shops for some reason.
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
Last time I went to Moseley, I was playing at a pub. Whilst trying to reverse the van into a particularly awkward back entrance to their delivery area, a guy came out of the pub with his coat on and veered over to us. Looking and sounding a bit drunk, he quizzed us as to the name of our band.
Now, you may have spotted that my band goes under a couple of different names depending on who we are booked through, but to add an extra spaniel into the wurst, this wasn't my regular band but a band featuring our agent chappy, who also uses one of those band names to play under but also uses all sorts of othe names...Long story short, me and drummerist who are reversing (badly) the van don't actually know WHAT name we are booked under...
but anyway, he won't know who we are anyway, we never played here before, it's cold, the guy's pissed, he's on his way OUT of the pub anyway...So we were all like "Oh we'll be on a bit later, come and check us out..."
"Yeah....but....whassyer band called...?"
*getting a bit short with him now, it's fecking freezing, we're running massively late and he's getting in the way of us parking up the van*
"We'll be on in a bit mate, catch us in there..."
"Look, I'm the manager of the place, I'm only trying to help you lads...."
Ohhh. Turns out he wasn't drunk at all. Just had a bit of a peculiar manner about him.
Haven't played there since..
There is a charity shop on the mainland side [about 20 metres in] of the bridge linking Mayo to Achill. The lady there gave me an armful of CDs for €5. Really, I was mortified but she piled them up. And kept on piling them up. Green Day, Master of Puppets and at least two dozen more rock disks [none of which I had].
I like browsing in charity shops. Recently I find complete sets of bands or singers, mainly from the modern era. Presumably the owner emigrated to Canada or Australia. Sign of the times really.
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Bought SEVEN albums yesterday - 6 in Oxfam, 1 in the heart foundation thingy, whatever it's called..
Bowie - Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Heroes
Marillion - Marbles Live, Afraid of Sunlight, Radiation
Prince - Batman (how did I not own this already?!)
@ £1.99
Never given Bowie a proper listen, so we'll see...
Oddly enough, I saw at least three copies of the Magic Numbers' first (?) album, plus the usual Geri Halliwell albums and, bingo!, Toploader's Dancing in the Moonlight CD single
Last edited by RocknRollDave; 3rd February 2013 at 10:02 AM.
It is odd how you get that - I can't think of the last example but the four shops I go to in my nearest town had at least three copies of something not too commercial, recently. I think they must have some sort of subliminal expiry date encoded into the music so everyone gets rid of them at about the same time.
The Toploader single is easier to explain though - no-one with any taste would buy it, so they just accumulate in charity shops whenever they're donated and stay there for ever...
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New discovery!
Not a charity shop, but Poundland! The one at Lakeside now have refurbed used CDs, all for a pound each. Plenty of the usual shit, but got Manics' "This is my Truth", The Thrills' "So Much for the City", and best of all, The Vines' "Highly Evolved"
AND they sell multipacks of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers
I remember Poundland from my last visit to the UK haha...New discovery!
Not a charity shop, but Poundland! The one at Lakeside now have refurbed used CDs, all for a pound each. Plenty of the usual shit, but got Manics' "This is my Truth", The Thrills' "So Much for the City", and best of all, The Vines' "Highly Evolved"
AND they sell multipacks of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers
We Aussies don't get charity shops like you do. Shame really. You get some good shit there so cheap! Picked up a few oddities in an Oxfam shop:
- Porcupine Tree "Deadwing"
- Saxon
- Whitesnake
- Nightwish Greatest Hits
Based on this just went and had a look in Poundland. They had the cd's but pretty much all Simply Red, Boys II Men, Engleburt Humperdinck,etc.New discovery!
Not a charity shop, but Poundland! The one at Lakeside now have refurbed used CDs, all for a pound each. Plenty of the usual shit, but got Manics' "This is my Truth", The Thrills' "So Much for the City", and best of all, The Vines' "Highly Evolved"
AND they sell multipacks of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers
on a plus note they did have self adhesive carpet tiles which would be ideal for chopping up to refurb a pedal board
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
...and would be more enjoyable to listen to than the Simply Red CD's....
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