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29

Her Master’s Voice: You Spin me Right Round

Filed Under Inside Out 

High Fidelity

Anyone who has tried buying a CD at HMV knows exactly what I’m talking about. Confidence determines the list of must-have music be committed to memory. The list is then repeated mentally en route, and one final time before entering the shop. Suddenly, the list is wiped clean from your mind. Nothing inside the store is recognizable. The pesky, pressure-cooking question surfaces: “What am I doing here?” You leave with another Squeeze CD, Live in Nagoya, Japan, because you’ve done this before and own all their albums and greatest hits by now. It’s a mess, but now you’re building a collection of failed attempts and have convinced yourself of the merit of live recordings. Leaving empty-handed after all the effort, is not an option. A promise is made to oneself to commit the list to paper. Another promise is made to keep the earlier promise. Enough time passes and the experience becomes the amusing anecdote for the next time history repeats itself.

Of course, this is referring to a time where people shopped for CDs.

– The author of this blog on what entering the domain of dating can be like.

Comments

One Response to “Her Master’s Voice: You Spin me Right Round”

  1. JM on February 3rd, 2009 1:24 am

    Genius. So true. Sooo true. (Explains why I never bought many CDs too!)

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