Standing on the headland taking in the scene.

[reddragdiva]

"If people spent 1/10th as much on music as they did on corsets for instance, you wouldn`t see LJ full of bands whinging that the scene is dead." (markeris, on the goth scene, from here.)

I can hardly believe how much money I used to spend on records and how little I do now. Not that I spend it on clothes either. Nor am I making it up in MP3s. Mostly I'm just wishing I had my old vinyl here. With a laser turntable.

Discuss.

(By the way, full points to mickmercer for switching on comments at last. A lot of interesting ones, too.)

Comments

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I am one of those who spends more on music, books and DVDs than on clothes. No change there.

I am in fear that some goths who have tons of clothes and lots of new things to wear at events will make fun of me for wearing the same old stuff (some of my dresses are close to 10 years old or older), and as of now, still don't own a corset.

But, a lot of the music I get is not goth. My latest purchase was the Eurovision song contest winner Ruslana's single Wild Dance and I got the Bloodhound Gang's Horray for Boobies at my shop yesterday for 2 quid.

I still like and support a lot of the current bands (Swarf, Manuskript for example) and do my best considering I am older than 95% of the people "in the scene" and no longer live in a city with a large live scene to choose from.