The over reliance on apps and tech for something that should be easily accessible for anyone.
Been trying to get a doctors appointment for 2 days both through my local GP (book online, system down, eventually works later that day, get sent link to book appointment but there are none available) + private healthcare thing i get through work (booked, got cancelled, booked, app goes down, then didnt have strong enough signal for the video call and missed the appt).
Going well so far then. Just pay for a receptionist to take my call instead of paying contractors to create unreliable computer things pls.
Went away this week and the postie left the records out in the rain. Cardboard was so soggy I peeled it off. Obviously covers have been binned but hoping tomorrow when I test them that the records are actually ok. It’s literally a 10 foot walk to my front door which has a roof that would’ve kept them dry from where they left it. Just lazy.
I was thinking the other day how I still managed to build up a nice record collection as a skint student / low paid first and second jobber in the 90s. Wouldn’t be able to do that now.
The Joe Zawinul Claussell edit is $69.99 from Dope Jams. pre postage. And im sure they said the Whistle Bump was inshore purchase only. Fair play if the right people are making money. But its crraazzy
There’d be no chance nowadays. But we’d all have probably been digital DJ’s but even that at $5-$10 a track in some cases that would’ve been beyond me.
if anyone were ever to ask where I wasted most money as a student, it wasn’t the booze or pizzas, it was those CD singles with their obligatory ‘Jules & Skins’ remixes. I put it down to the excitement of leaving home and acquiring a Panasonic all-in-one for the first time.
This;
‘Maybe this is what happens when the arts are decimated, when funding is stripped from vital, high-quality spaces. It leaves a vacuum that invariably gets filled with rubbish, with cynical “immersive” installations, with Van Gogh and Klimt “experiences” and David Hockney light shows, with people trying to fleece you and call it art in the process.’