Check out his show on Do You, Fridays at midday:
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Yeah, he’s great. Was it the one from Berlin last month?
Some mates have booked him for their party in July (at my insistence! So pretty chuffed about that)
Good interview will Bill here-
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I think he’s doing a big set at our pals housewarming this weekend.
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Yes! a solid 7.5 hrs right there, maybe I’ll invite him over for a house party 
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Had a day out in London (Watford) yesterday to watch Argyle, was an early kick off so had a good few hours spare before heading back to Plymouth.
Time for an Exhibition, some food and …records!
Headed to Phonica which I appreciate is going to be more expensive than some online retailers, still when I’m paying for the three 12’s and one 7" that had choses and it come in at £67 that just crazy.
Reflecting on the price I paid for them on the train on the way home a comment a cashier in Iceland to me last year. Buying a pack of chicken the cashier said to me “I remember when these cost, £5, then £7 then £10 and now they are almost £13” then she somberly said the bit that stuck with me “Where will it all end”.
Everything is so fucking expensive, records being the least of my/our worries.
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Getting some chocolates for my mum yesterday £10 without the supermarket points card £6 if you have it…
Piss take.
I know the tories floated the idea of supermarket price capping and it went nowhere- apparently because ‘it wouldn’t work’.
It irritates me that the benefits cap and rent capping is widespread, yet government freely allows unrestricted profiteering particularly on essentials such as food.
Sorry - slightly off topic
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price capping on food wouldn’t work, would end up in race to the bottom in quality
e.g. If you capped a beef burger at £1 then a big company could make a profit on a ‘lips + sweepings’ burger but would put all those artisan folk out of business
Supermarkets & manufacturers are just very clever at doing offers, they actually have low margins ( else Lidl would have put everyone out of business) The £6 offer is probably loss leader so you buy something else or sell your data
Weve had an unusually long run of low inflation followed by some massive shocks from Ukraine
Id love for better re-distribution of income but it will take decades if you have a govt behind it
Im not being a capitalist cnut but global economics is vv complex
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The main problem seems be that big corporations are slaves to their shareholders, so we see BP scaling back commitment to acting on climate change because they arent making as much profit as their rivals, and food + beverage companies (eg rhymes with Best Lay) struggling to satisfy the demands of their investors while making prices competitive as the price of coffee goes through the roof.
I wont pretend to understand the intricacies of it all but basically it all comes down to shortsightedness and greed, its a mess and it probably always has been but it seems worse at the moment because we’re exposed to more of the details.
Still, vinyl eh? Pffft!
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Sure -I don’t pretend to fully understand the intricacies of it all, but there’s no doubt that free market economics in 2025 is noticeably free of morals
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It’s a joke. There was an excellent study done recently that showed that the inflation during and after COVID was mainly caused by price gouging, not the extra money put into the economy or wages.
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or shoplifiting, as the media claimed at length.
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It came from corporations justifying a price increase due to Covid (when people were objectively spending more money, look at how sneaker reselling for one boomed during this time) and then realizing nobody would stop them when they did it again and again.
Corporate bonuses are at record heights. My company just gave record bonuses to the CEO but the lowest average increase to the workers this past year. And that’s the norm.
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Scumbags
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Trickle down economics …
Long but entertaining article on this topic: great record buying swindle.
TLDR: title says it all. Covers pricing, quality issues, marketing bullshit. And poor view of Record Store Day.
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I was just browsing the new reggae releases on Juno and came across this doozy which takes the madness to new heights/lows:
£205.25 (how did that come up with that precision?!) for a re-release of that little-known album Exodus which is available in another version on the same site for £28 and on discogs you can get a VG+ for £15 Bob MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Exodus Vinyl at Juno Records.
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A few years ago I treated myself to the AP reissue of Troubadour. It’s an all time favourite and my original copy is pretty spanked so I thought ‘why not’.
It’s a beautiful sounding record and I’m glad I got it, from memory it was around £80 at the time. It brings a lot of joy, mind you the og copy would as well 
I know there was a bit of scandal a while ago due to some of the releases being digitally remastered and not analog or something but the release I got sounds great.
Still, the price is outlandish to say the least.
edit, It was actually Mobile Fidelity that were sued because their claim of all analog wasn’t exactly true.
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“Fans will pay for records that feel intentional—ones that respect their passion, loyalty, and desire to own something special,” said Jeffrey Smith, Discogs’ Vice President of Marketing . Collectors aren’t ATMs. They know when they’re being sold an experience versus when they’re just being sold to. Keep treating them like a revenue stream instead of a community, and they’ll remember. The future of vinyl belongs to those who get this right.”
Mmm…slightly hypocritical- considering the unrestricted profiteering that goes off via some of the chancers selling on discogs, which the platform does nothing to police it seems
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At the other end I was recently messaged and offered 39p for a record I was selling for £1.99. Offers were switched off. I also got some spiel about how it was representative of the record’s actual value.
“According to who? And fuck off!”
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