Record Shopping-Generation Gap

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Fender Relic, Oct 19, 2018.

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  1. pig bodine

    pig bodine God’s Consolation Prize

    Location:
    Syracuse, NY USA
    I bought records for 25 years and never had anyone start a conversation with me.

    Maybe because I look a bit psychotic, maybe because I’m somewhat inconsistent with my hygiene, but I’ve pretty much been left alone.
     
  2. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Maybe it's because you roll up in the parking lot riding a bear without your shirt.
     
  3. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    You know what's creepier? Having a conversation from stall to stall when you're taking a dump.:yikes:

    I was traveling along I-80 this summer and did a bathroom break and the guy in the next stall was having an Austin Powers who works for #2 moment. I was about to call 911 as it sounded like he was going thru labor.
     
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  4. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I was in the restroom at work and overheard an employee talking to is poop. No joke.
     
  5. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Was it talking back?
     
  6. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I didn't stick around long enough to know. I wanted to get outta there fast!
     
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  7. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Good move....might have been a Men In Brown moment.
     
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  8. Jeff Kent

    Jeff Kent Forum Resident

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    Mt. Kisco, NY
    A friend of mine heard Mingus poop at the Vanguard...he said it sounded exactly like you'd think it would.
     
  9. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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  10. CCrider92

    CCrider92 Senior Member

    Location:
    Cape Cod, MA
    When I was a lot younger I shopped with no list because I could remember what I was looking for. Then I got to the age where I brought a written list. I still don't own one of the phones you people are talking about, but it's been numerous times at record shows when I've been going thru crates of records when I stepped on something and it was someone's phone they's lost, and I'd go to the desk run by the show's management so they could try to find the owner.
     
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  11. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    People need to learn not to "hover" over someone who got their first. It's rude as hell.
     
  12. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I never take dumps in public restrooms. I wait until I get home, am at a relative's home, at at a motel. I am also very careful about what and when I eat when away from home to avoid the need to dump in a public restroom.
     
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  14. mitchius

    mitchius Forum Resident

    Location:
    Jamison Pa
    Both :(
     
  15. Fender Relic

    Fender Relic Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Wow,you are a man with a plan :agree:.

    I can't help it, Barnes & Noble makes me have to poop. I don't get it but when I'm in their stores.....anchors aweigh. Stinks but sh** happens.
     
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  16. n8great321

    n8great321 Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Alabama
    To continue my interstate analogy, I usually just pass them or go to a different section and come back to that one later. I don't appreciate the hover either.
     
  17. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

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    Northeast USA
    When I gotta go, I gotta go.
     
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  18. Sprague Dawley

    Sprague Dawley Forum Resident

    Location:
    Japan
    It's the journey not the destination, maaaan
     
  19. Marty T

    Marty T Stereo Fan

    Location:
    NM - North of ABQ
    I've learned this the hard way, being the creeper that I am. I don't know that it's so much a generation thing. I'm a boomer and saw an guy older in one of my favorite sections at Amoeba, Ventures CDs. He was Asian so I ASSumed he was Japanese as the Ventures were the first of the "big in Japan" groups. I looked at the one CD he had in hand and said, "That's a good one!" He replied politely with a "Yep". Wanting more, I said, "Did you listen to The Ventures when you were in Japan?" His response was about the most perturbed muttering of "yeah" as he quickly got away from this nosey, assuming old white guy. I don't do that anymore. If I want music discussion at the record book, it's a lot easier and more appropriate at the record swap.
     
  20. OhNotHimAgain

    OhNotHimAgain Forum Resident

    Location:
    New York
    I’m 28 and started collecting at 14, before the smartphone revolution. I’ve shopped with written lists, digital ones, and just for fun. I generally don’t talk to any other shoppers unless they’re weighing a purchase I might have some (positive) input on. No judgement, just recommendations. I agree that looking albums up online is useful to me — especially SH Forum threads on a particular mastering.
     
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