Comments on: you can buy it anywhere

By: Platterpus says hello to Hamster Mall - Sound Check - MassLive.com

Platterpus says hello to Hamster Mall - Sound Check - MassLive.com — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:20:37 +0000

[...] wrote this essay about the shrinking-used-record-store phenomenon for the Local Buzz a while back. I think it stands [...]

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:20:30 +0000

Yippee. We can all sit on our fat behinds in front of our $10,000 entertainment systems at home and never leave the house again…

By: Topher

Topher — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:29:33 +0000

The lack of the hunter-gatherer opportunity, even for geek squad quality items, has weakend our society. We are tickled and entertained by the novelities the internet provides but where are the treasures, the hard-to-find rarities? I guess hunting and gathering, we might start creating ur won treasures for others to find and seek.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:14:28 +0000

Easy access? your saying you have listened to every song and know its where to find it? you’ve seen every image and visited every website? If everything was easy access, no search required nobody would read ldopa.net

I think this is a good thing, you just have to translate it right

ldopa.net, a random website ( the small town bookstore ) dumpster diving for content nobody I know has.

We have just taken the travel out of the equation, now anyone anywhere can browse these millions of websites, searching for digital treasures, and instead of showing them off we share with others.

Social Bookmarking: sharing what we find, sure your not the only one that has it but I don’t really see the fun in that. I prefer search, find, share.

By: cauley

cauley — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:53:13 +0000

Great post.
It’s got me wondering if the easy access to all products/media is the same as having a Pizza Hut in every miracle mile.
And where will people expend their energy/look for their high now that bin-diving is near obsolete? Or will they look regardless?
I’m really interested in what l-dopans think about this. Any takers on either of those questions?
Oh, and if my wife is reading this, I HAVE been working today. Love you.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:50:07 +0000

You know, I kinda feel this way. Except I still find cool stuff in bookstores that I haven’t been able to find of Amazon. I don’t know if it’s because those bookstores are just broken in keeping their inventories up to date or what, but it still works.

Not for long, though.

This phenom has pointed out to me the absurdity of tying my identity to what I possess. What I make is much less replicable because that thrill of the hunt is replaced with something unreplaceable: the thrill of constant discovery and learning.

That’s why I write games, build planes, and draw. It’s 100% non-commodity. It takes me out of the cattle category.

In the last few minutes, I’ve heard Eno, Vangelis, Lords of Acid, Talking Heads, Wire, M.I.A., and, God help me, Negativland. I have these because I like them. They don’t make me cool, though there was some hope of that at some point. I think we’re just seeing the vicious, paint-stripper-like removal of consumerist cruft that we’ve though of as our identities for the last half century.

Our big deal stuff is communications gear these days: video games to play with people, TVs to watch movies, stereos to listen to music, phones (and whatever they’re evolving into, Lamark-like) to talk with our friends. It’s about art.

You can consume it, chewing your bitcud, or you can create.

By: IRULANdotNET

IRULANdotNET — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

as digital distribution gives us all, it also removes every trace of the thrill of the hunt. It removes any special feeling you’d get when you were pretty damn sure you were the only kid in your town with that impossibly cool, incredibly rare CD.Link