"fifty quid man"

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article in yesterday's "G2"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1159112,00.html

For various reasons I find difficult to express, I found this article absolutely repellent. The ugly, holier-than-thou-ness of the writer perhaps, or possibly that the nauseating d4v|d h3pw0rth gets to parade his sickening smug toss opinions w/o getting thee verbal beatdown of all time, plus it also mentions m4rk 3ll3n. h3pw0rth & 3ll3n mentioned in the same article = my blood pressure thru the roof they are teh sukc the pair of them. Oh dear i have become sidetracked a bit. anyway....

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If they suck so much why not make them ungoogleproof?

Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with you Pash - Hepworth is the most loathsome individual in publishing. He used to have a Sunday evening show on GLR called - with hideous smugness - 'Executive Drivetime' on which he would play endless amounts of Steely Dan in the belief that he was soundtracking middle aged VIPs cruising back into the capital after spending the weekend at their pile in the country. Even the memory of it is infuriating me.

It makes me want to never buy 'Word' again. (Which is actually tolerable, when Hepworth isn't in its pages)

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I don't know markelby. Force of habit or something like that.

(x-post later "whistle test" progs w/ellen/hepworth = HORRIBLE)

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I get your point.

By definition, I should fit the description.

I don't think Pop Idol devalues music. I do believe it devalues the participants. My kids are both quite musical/dancey talented (more later, like 15 years later), but the thought that they have to learn maria carey songs to get anywhere makes me poorly (nothing against ms Carey btw).

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The article mentioned Damien Rice in the first paragraph. I had to stop.

robster (robster), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Word" mag is gine/freat, but the recent one 50s/60s/70s/80s/90s was rubbish, but I get the impression that's the one they think will win the awards...

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Damien Rice is 30 sommat. I can't imagine anyone younger caring about him...

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Heck, I dont. Mind you I'm much older.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never heard of him before this article. I think it's the looking down on an uncool demographic thing that gets me annoyed. I mean, the general set of tastes referred to is very much not mine (mine = yes/magazine, not clash/dylan) but still, it just seems horrible and patronising and generalising and stuff to refer to people in such a manner.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's the Guardian. They are talking about their own people...

It's just about the difficulties of demographic marketing definitions.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose there is some humour in the situation though (if it's actually true, and not just some piece of nonsense hearsay spouted off by hepworth to keep himself in a job) OH NO!!1 we need the money of the uncool in order to survive!!

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha my sister loves Damien Rice and once subjected a group of people including our difficult-Radiohead-loving Mum to a WHOLE ALBUM, nodding David Gray-style all the while and singing along to especially 'moving' bits. Hence Robster's horror above. Truly she is prematurely middle-aged music-wise. And kind of otherwise too, but enough of this familial frivolity.

DVD as "transformational medium" WTF? Also:
"But frankly," says Hepworth, "blokes get the same giddy rush from buying CDs and DVDs that most women get from shoes. It's a spiritual thing."

Wow. I wish I was his girlfriend. We'd have so much to talk about.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz, this is why every magazine he runs has a one woman only policy in effect, or so it seems.

suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't begin to say how much I dislike Damien Rice.

Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...
I've never heard of Rice. DVD *is* a transformational medium -- it's 10x more desirable than VHS. The explosion of DVD is actually revolutionary and it's going to alter what cinema is. I never spend 50 quid in one go, I don't much like Jonathan Ross, think Franz Ferdinand are for shit, etc, but marketeers earn their living -- it's an accurate description of a genuine phenomenon. I hate the new labour-voting smugness of the guys though.

Strachey, Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Word used to brag about featuring 'all the stuff that's worth spending your cash on' and I used to think that following their advice would be a really good way of filling your house up with shit. Perhaps lots of people think that, so Hepworth had to invent fifty quid man to justify his mag's existence. Or something. It got very smug very quickly, but I might buy this month's because it comes in a plaggy bag and has a picture of iPods Taking Over like Day of the Triffids on the cover.

I think they could improve circulation by signing up JtN.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rsicopyright.com/local/images/paperboy.jpg

RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

EXTRA! EXTRA! NIPPER SIGNS TO WORD!

the wordfox, Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got it. 110 SONGS YOU *HAVE* TO HEAR! SOUND ADVICE FROM NICK LOWE, FRANZ FERDINAND, JERRY THE NIPPER AND 107 OTHER MUSIC LOVERS. It's so nice in its plaggy bag. I got MOJO too. NORAH JONES "I NEARLY LOST MY MIND!" That sounds like a total Nipper fabrication. 100 GREATEST EPIC ROCK TRACKS EVER! I look forward to that.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That Norah Jones feature in 'mojo' was terrible.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

I’m one of those sad middle-aged chaps you see hanging around record stores. While the young have learnt to download music for free, I still like buying CDs in shops. The music industry had the unappealing name of “£50 man” to describe middle-aged blokes like me who would spend more than we could sensibly afford on classic rock and pop CDs to replace scratchy vinyl discs and recapture the thrills of our distant youth.

These days, however, we are thinner on the ground and HMV, Britain’s largest music retailer, is in trouble. It has closed 40 of its stores, flogged off the Waterstones bookshop chain and issued repeated profit warnings. Sales over the crucial Christmas period to the end of December last year were down by 8.1 per cent, though there was a glimmer of good news the other week after the company struck a deal with banks and suppliers aimed at halving its substantial debts over the next three years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/9078788/What-will-50-man-do-if-HMV-goes.html

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:27 (thirteen years ago)

They also have a nasty habit of giving you a look of utter contempt should you have chosen a CD or DVD they regard as uncool.

if you give the plebs in hmv an opportunity to sneer you really have fucked up tbf

DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:25 (thirteen years ago)

^ this.

I swear people just make this shit up. That didn't happen mr £50 man. Don't be so self absorbed to think for a second that people who work in HMV give a shit about what you're listening to. And if they do, remember, they work in HMV.

owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:58 (thirteen years ago)

they probably do have utter contempt for you though, just not because of the music you're purchasing.

Rosie 47 (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:03 (thirteen years ago)

I imagine working in HMV is like working in little chef.

owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:09 (thirteen years ago)

why, does Charles Spencer go in Little Chef every week and get disdainful looks for ordering egg and chips?

Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:16 (thirteen years ago)

no he goes to Wimpy

owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:18 (thirteen years ago)

?

Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:22 (thirteen years ago)

Just because many years ago, I did indeed see Charles Spencer in Little Chef. (This was before Diana died)..

(checks article) ah, a different Charles Spencer

Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:25 (thirteen years ago)

britishers -- tell me about WIMPY BARS and their shitty burgers

DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:25 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

They also have a nasty habit of giving you a look of utter contempt should you have chosen a CD or DVD they regard as uncool.

if you give the plebs in hmv an opportunity to sneer you really have fucked up tbf

― DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:25 (11 months ago)

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