could you spend £500 on music right now?

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if you had £500 wd it be possible fr you to spend it on music at yr local best music shop right this instant (i.e. no research etc)? my flatmate says he couldn't, no way. is thr a domino generation who in this post-domino world are being left behind? i guess this is wht i thk abt him a little, waiting fr the Next (One i.e. a band, rather than a movement, musical revolution) Big Thing but while doing so waiting by waiting for the next smog, the next oldham, the next malkmus. i asked him recently who was the last truly great person he discovered and after abandoning his original answer (loveless & pavement: wtf 12/13 years ago!!!) he settled for jim o'rourke :( so yeah, the original question, could you? plus is this a widespread, wide-noticed thing (the 'domino' generation floundering in a post-domino world whatever) or just localised to my flat?

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(i know most ppl here have much better things tht they cd spend £500 on, bt it's not abt the £500, see?)

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what is this to do with Domino?

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

um, how many £ = a $?

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

you have to win a dominoes tournament to get the £500.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I would just get a bunch of boxsets, so yes.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

if you had £500 wd it be possible fr you to spend it on music at yr local best music shop right this instant (i.e. no research etc)?

I've spent $400 at once at Noise Noise Noise before, so I'm sure I could aim even higher, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

well, nothing distinctly to do with domino gareth but but... the person i asked if he could do this, well actually he was moaning that he couldn't and i was astounded. anyway, he's a straight down the line top 3 albums probably palace bros, doctor came at dawn, slanted and enchanted and all his favourite bands were on domino or associated with bands on the roster. even if you weren't on domino thr's probably a traceable history of bands who are 'domino bands', anyway whatever. (and obviously there are non-domino bands on domino: most of the later: non-smog / oldham / sling / that era of indie math rock music endorsed ones: ie somebdy like clearlake or the guy james something anyway). i dunno, it just seems like he's 'locked' or something. and i just couldn't comprehend, it just wouldn't compute, that he didn't think that there wasn't £500 worth of good music in glasgow. that's such an alien idea to me, i'm saying i could spend thousands. haha, what does this have to do with domino?

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(have i just realised i'm asking 'does indie mean anything now? and if not, are the people who still want it to lost, ill served by record shops, locked inside the memories and delivery schedules?') or you can listen to rjg.

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i could spend the money quickly and easily, indie or no indie. if there's one thing i'm good at, it's making that cash disappear.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

but this is unsurprising, it sounds like he has quite specific music tastes?

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't imagine having a problem spending money at a record store.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

well i'm a bit sleepy, so with a proper size cup of coffee and a cheatsheet printout of my current wishlist, and the right shoppe, i'm painfully certain i could spend £500 in about 25 minutes. that's about $170 every five minutes, which seems about right as long as i'm in the proper aisle. also, christmas is right around the bend. your dominoriented pal sounds like he could use the entire esp-disk, funkadelic, and rough trade catalog.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Spending $750 on music wouldn't be tough, even at a Best Buy or decent chain store. At a good independent record store, the hard part would be figuring out what to pick and fit under $750.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i could easily spend thousands on out of print stuff.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if I could spend $1200 Cdn at one store. I mean, yeah, I could, but I'd be buying a lot of stuff just for the sake of buying stuff. Spread over three or four stores? Yes. Yes I could.

― VMP, Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

somehow i missed the "at one store" qualifier. sadly, i think the answer is still yes.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yes david.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about anyone else, but 500ukp is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of albums I have slsk'ed in the last nine months. In a good store with a broad selection I would have no problem picking up hard copies of stuff I already have much less stuff I really want to hear but haven't bothered looking for yet.

The best thing about ILM is that it exposes you to so much different music that I don't see how you could ever run out of music to be interested in. I feel sorry for anybody who would get stuck in one particular genre or era of music. It seems like there is so much out there to discover.

As for

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I could spend $750 easy at Mars Music if I was in Boston, or any number of record stores in NYC. If I was restricted to CD's, well.... I'd just get every hip-hop album I don't have by reasonably respectable artists.

― DougD, Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

god, this would be so easy

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

easy easy easy, although it wouldn't necessarily be anything at the top of my wants' list

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

not in denver, maybe when i go to neptune records when i am back in detroit for the holidays.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now, today, £500 = $860.85. So you can all stop taking wild stabs at it.

I'd never want to spend that amount in one store, or in one afternoon. That's how you end up buying bad music.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

At a decent sized record store, and not at, say, Spinadisc Northampton, easily.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Or alternately, Kenan, Christmas gifts that you know YOU don't want but that other people would love. The stipulation isn't that you have to spend this amount of money for music for yourself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

or you could just buy that bach box set.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

or marissa whatever's, if you put some of your own money with.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I could drop $860.85 on music that would be at least decent, without much trouble. A lot of the vinyl I want at Forever Young is $25+ - which I won't spend, normally, but if it was someone else's money, no prob.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I could spend that much in Sound 323 in Highgate (floorspace - approx.250 sq.ft.), and there wouldn't be any buying of bad music involved, oh no.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

piece o cake.

― Debito (Debito), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

could do it pretty easily, but i'd end up with a lot of shit.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 7 December 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, there are guitars and pedals at my local record store. Can I buy them too, or is that off limits?

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 7 December 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I would if I could, bro.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Only £500? Where's the challenge in that? I could easily spend £500 in the jazz section, £500 in the indie section, and £500 in the reggae and "world" sections if they had decent ones!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

easy, i might sell a bunch of em a couple days later tho

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I could easily spend £500 on music in one go, dunno if it'd be all in the same shop.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 December 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My current Wishlist at CDUNIVERSE is something like 8 pages long -- with 50 titles per page the entire bin would cost in the neighborhood of $6k.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds like the makings of a high concept sequel to High Fidelity:

INT. PARLOR DAY

TERMINALLY ILL OLD MAN
Yes, Rob, you must spend $1 million on records in the next 24 hours. You are not allowed to buy two records from the same band. If you succeed, you get to keep all the records. If you fail, you get...NOTHING! Now get cracking!

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i could easily spend £2000 on records right now. sigh.

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, you could buy an entire FOPP!

(haha xpost)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

easily
other than third eye foundation,none of it would be on domino stuff though

― robin (robin), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd spend that much on boxsets, convert them to mp3, burn them to disc then return them the next day. Hah!

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I could do it at Reckless or Used Kids .. But I went into a store last month with money just a'burnin' a hole in my pocket .. and I only bought one CD, reluctantly - which ended up kind of sucking.

So - depends on the store, but yeah - easy.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Easily, especially with the help of box sets.

(Why am I getting a weird radio signal over my PC speakers?)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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