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

[xandraius.livejournal.com]

Um, not sure if that statement offends me because of my natural knee-jerk alt.gothic style rabid reaction to abolute statements and broad sweeping ones at that.. or if I just think it's wrong. Regardless, my $2.00 worth:

What a crock of shite. I've spent far more on music than on clothes and guess what? Although SOME new stuff is okay, most of it is so heavily rave-elctro-trance based it annoys. In terms of evolution, once an organism reaches enough iterations, it is not akin to the base animal. This has happened with a LOT of the newer stuff. To defend people who spend shite-loads on clothing, eisdamme spends more on fashion in a year than some small third world countries spend on their budget. I exagerate, but not by a much. Yet, she keeps current with everything in the scene and has reached the same conclusion. Hrm.

[reddragdiva]

I expect my journal is strongly biased toward record nerds. But don't say you don't know the people the statement is talking about.