Entertainment For Lively Minds
How more bland? None more bland...
Posted by lit doof on 30 January 2009 - 3:49pm.
Caught site of some hapless punter's selections as he was queuing up to pay for them in HMV. I should have immediately intervened. Can you honestly think of a more bland, pointless exchange of £30 than the following:
- Coldplay - the album with the French Revolutionary painting artwork (La Vida Loca or something)
- Little Britain DVD set
- The Pigeon Detectives CD
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.
dear o dear.
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and why
does this bother you so much??
So
that was you staring at me in the queue!
Each
to their own, good luck to them.
Don't be a snob
Sure, there's nothing completely up my strasse there either, but live and let live. Man.
And ...
they mite (sic) be pressies.
Exactly
Different strokes for different folks. Whatever makes you happy. There was stuff I bought as gifts at Christmas that made me want to keep out in the garage just in case the music police swoop in, but knowing and seeing the joy it brings the recipient is priceless.
Absolutely
Live and let live.
If no-one bought the dross we'd have nothing to feel superior about.
Rich
Nothing to do with being a
Nothing to do with being a music snob (of which I am wholly aware that I am), but more of a case of preventing an inevitable disaster. And the live and let live mantra ought to be applied to everything than other Coldplay (sorry)
read
High Fidelity
Just as well...
...that you weren't behind me in the queue when I had to buy three Il Divo CDs a couple of Christmasses back.
did I tell you the tale
of returning a faulty "Cliff richard best of" repeatedly to the only cool record shop in our town.
Plus he could have been returning them as unwanted Xmas presents!
What were you clutching in your grubby mitts...
...while this queuing incident was taking place?
I think...
I had The Week That Was album, and Agents of Fortune by Blue Oyster Cult (!)
well
I'm with you, I certainly would've had a quiet word in their shell like
what and try to sell them some iffy satire from
the 1960's :humourous topical calypsos and hilarious sketches about joining the common market and Harold Wilson......
Could be wrong
but I don't think it was *that* Week That Was album.
does that not contain
topical calypsos then my mistake? I do think telling people you don't know what to buy is terrific idea i'm sure they'll respond favourably by blacking your eye or bending your brolly round your head.
Bloody hell, good thing you didn't see me...
with my Supertramp remasters and Gilbert O'Sullivan best of.
Bloody well right!
(O, dear, have I unwittingly done a 'Tramp joke?)
My fave Harry Hill joke
I saw in the street, very sad sight, an old man with his hand out begging and he was singing - 'When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,. a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical'
I went up to him and said 'Supertramp'
He said 'oh, thanks very much'
Bravo!
Keep 'em coming!
Now you tell me
I was looking forward to hearing the dulcet tones of Willie Rushton and I got stringy indie kids!
God only knows what that vegetarian behind me
thought when i bought a lamb shank from tescos
That the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
Its death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder
Though they probably wouldn't be able to muster the energy to tell you, so its fine