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The Lunch Discussion - Record Store Day Rush: Vinyl Fans Brave the Queue at Tasty Records · The Discussion Podcast

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This is the Late Late Lunch Show with Rod Maxwell supported by Maxwell!
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Childbird Learning in Nature's Playground,
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So it's Rod Maxwell from Radio Alty. I'm down at Tasty Records for what is Record Store Day.
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It is, oh, just after nine o'clock and there's a huge crew around here.
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And I'm with Annalise from the store.
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What time did you open that today? We opened at eight o'clock today.
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This is true. Some people were sleeping eyes. Yeah. So I know someone started
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camping here at, I think it was 2.30 p.m.
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Yeah. And then a queue just emerged from then on. What do you think people are looking for?
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I mean, obviously they're looking for vinyl, but are they looking for some rare
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stuff? Is there good new rare stuff in there? I think there is, to be honest.
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I think a lot of the records, from what I've been told, there aren't many of
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them, so they are quite rare.
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Do you collect a bit of vinyl yourself? I do. I've got quite a lot of oasis, I will say. Yeah.
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And what do you think's special about vinyl as opposed to digital?
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I think that i mean it's just the traditional way to be honest i think it's just.
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It's just like this is something about putting the
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needle on yeah i don't know it's
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something so nice about owning a record player and just putting
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it on unlike just on your phone it's almost a
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warmth about it isn't it yeah there is as well
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i just i think the look of a record player too i
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think it just it looks good as well it's all retro
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yeah it is and if you could buy any album
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at the moment what would you be buying oh that's
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a good one i've got
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quite a lot of oasis but i'd say i want i want more oasis really yeah yeah what
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is it about oasis i just love oasis to be honest it's my favorite or to be fair
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i would want a stone roses oh yeah i know yeah i think that one would be a good
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one. Well, have a good day.
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You soon you're listening to the late late
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lunch show with back to the garden childcare where
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little explorers grow naturally so queuing
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out outside tasty records i'm speaking to emily
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emily what time did you get here at 4 45 maybe
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4 30 4 45 did you pack any like
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um supplies any coffee so we've had camping
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chairs sleeping bags coffee like warm
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layers like i've got two pairs of socks on i'm prepared for
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this this is a bit like it's a bit like queuing up for
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glasgow isn't it really is yeah have you done this
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before yeah so this is i think our third year third
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year coming so the first year we got first year
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we came like slightly later and so we realized the strap
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was to go earlier to try and get try and get in with
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them because we figured you're going to queue for the same amount of time so it's
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better to queue earlier and then get your records guaranteed i was
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massively optimistic i thought i could come down here and the
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queue would be gone by now and i could walk in and pick up my vinyl but obviously
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not are you looking for anything in particular i'm hoping to get the vaccines
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one but i need to check if it's i don't know on the table because they only
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had a few yeah and there's a case one i want and then tv girl one i want as
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well and have you been collecting vinyl for a while now.
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Two and a half years three and a half years maybe I got a record player for
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Christmas like a few years ago and then since then I've just been like coming
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to like independent record shops like this and trying to get like a few bits
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and what do you think is different I mean what do you like about vinyl versus digital,
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I don't know I feel like there's something nice about having like an actual
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collection because like music is one of my hobbies I think and so it's just
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something nice about like being able to display like like my actual interest
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in my room rather than just having it all like on my phone do you know what
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I mean like it's something quite cool about having it all like.
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Out there to look at and like to display it's the physicalness of
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an album cover it makes you read about the artist more doesn't it definitely
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yeah like you get more involved like like making of it and like you like get
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like sometimes you get little like leaflets and like bits and like you know
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i mean like call it gatefolds or like something in it that's like lyric sheets
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or something like that it's quite cool and that you wouldn't have known that this artist had like
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remade the song 10 times and that wasn't do you know what i mean like stuff like that that you
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just find out and it's like quite cool to know that about and i feel i feel like
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it seems more like because i sometimes buy mine from like actual
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artist websites rather than like record shops sometimes and then
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you sort of get a bit more into like their kind of i don't like essence
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a bit you know what i mean like you get more of like what their vibe is
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all they're like and do you find with physical you actually sit
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down and chronologically listen to the album more so
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the way they've compiled it means more to you
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yeah definitely i think the first the first time i sort of really realized
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this was when i listened to it was pink floyd dark side of the moon i
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had a fourth edition of that of that record and i
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sat down and you know you have to listen to the whole thing and it made me
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realize that that's a listening experience there's not individual songs that are
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created for like you have to listen to each one it's you have to listen to the whole
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album and it just means so much more like as an experience because all the songs
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fit like perfectly like they don't like they don't end like you wouldn't know
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oh that's the end of the song it all fits and it all moves like the same way
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so it just like made more sense as an album than it did like as individual songs
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so just so much more interesting then and you're very young yeah wow I'm 16, so... 16? Yeah.
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Wow. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what, you are an avid record collector.
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Hopefully, yeah. Hopefully my collection will be really big one day.
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Oh, the colors of you. Yeah.
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Loads of, yeah, loads of Beatles Band Club record and really rare stuff.
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So I'm quite lucky to have inherited some cool ones. That's really special.
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Well, have a good day and good luck with your purchases. Thank you very much. Nice job.
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This is the Late Late Lunch Show with Rod Maxwell on Radio Alt-T.
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So down at Tasty Records, I've bumped into, it's a family affair of people who,
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they're a bit confused who they're related to actually but
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guys you're you've been down here since what
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time today we arrived just before six this morning no
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i i believe you've got a bit of a history of doing this i've done it well i've
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done it last year before then i wasn't too sure what the concept was so now
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i'm all in and this year i've brought my family with me as well so so last year
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you were the designate cure i believe absolutely i was here alone super early
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last year with everyone's requests,
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I dropped an awful lot of money.
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So this year, there's a few more of us to drop some money. Oh,
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right. So you basically brought somebody to help you drop more money?
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Yeah, yeah. To pay for their own records.
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I actually think the definition of love is your wife queuing for you.
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I believe you are the husband.
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That's me. Yeah, yeah. She queued last year for the Oasis one for me, which was very nice.
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Do you know about this? Did you send her? I did. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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I was too lazy to get up myself, so.
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My god i'll tell you what she's a keeper that's unbelievable i know.
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So what are you what are you queuing for today oh
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loads yeah a few few stuff i forget when you when you when you're on radio but
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what have i got on my list here you go i got my list here oh you got a list
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look here you go oh my goodness kh remixes naz godson what else we got self-esteem,
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Yeah, our friend sent us a list. English teacher.
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Blair, the cure. Wow, there you are. So can I ask, what is it about vinyl that you love?
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Because you must be on the cusp of the digital generation, are you?
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Yeah, we grew up with CDs. And I think.
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The sort of time of listening to an album from start to finish is hard now because
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you just got everything in the touch of your finger.
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So it's nice to just sit there and enjoy start to finish. And it's in the detail. It's in the detail.
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It's in the album coverage, isn't it? Well, you're holding it.
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Yeah. You're holding it. Yeah. You've got the lyrics, you've got everything.
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You know, it tells you who's playing on the record. Yeah.
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What instruments, what instrument you listen to. You know what I mean?
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You don't look at that when it's digital, do you? On digital, you miss everything.
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You miss everything. What are you here to collect, sir?
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I'm a wide range of stuff, really, but it's mainly stuff that I've grown up with, like...
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I thought you was a mod. Ian Brown. I thought you was a mod,
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though. I am a mod, though. Just get out.
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A bit of... Buzzcocks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I like a bit of soul as well.
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Ooh. But then there's a big relationship between mod and soul, isn't there?
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And you look at those genres, they're all... Yeah, that's right.
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I love it. There's almost a thing of there's nothing that's ever been original.
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It's just rediscovered, if you like. Well, yeah, yeah.
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And can I ask, about CDs, right? Yeah. CDs never did it for me.
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They were in between, like, physical and digital.
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And a CD cover, the cover got damaged.
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Did you find that? Yeah, a little bit. But I think, do you know,
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the thing that I like about both of those things is, like, there's a lot less
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listening to the full album now or, like, the full works in the order that it was meant to be.
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So when you go out and you buy a vinyl, you get a CD.
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You, like, listen to it as it was supposed to be heard. so you
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can be like in the kitchen cooking or whatever you're doing and like you've got
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it all on and that's what i really like about it so yeah
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i think but we grew up with cds but
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like we grew up when we passed our driver's test that you'd be
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putting the cd in the car wouldn't you so like that was
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like kind of our version so you've still got cds at home
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yeah you walk yeah yeah but that's for
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me now the industry's changed where it is all about
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the singles and and i i
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don't know i i think bands are more focused on singles or
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the the labels are which is a real shame isn't
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it it is because like the i mean there's the odd time
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where a single comes out and it's really good and it is what it is whereas like
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an album tells a story in the way that someone wanted to tell it and i think
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that's what i really like about the rest of a lot of music being made nowadays
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a lot of there's a lot of music being made by up-and-coming bands there's just
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a lot of you know you look at all the tours and the festivals.
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I know. But I have to say, I have a real apathy about the music industry today
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because I think it's often about the look rather than the sound. Would you agree?
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No, I don't know. I wouldn't agree with that. Would you not?
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Okay, good. So what do you mean by that?
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Well, sometimes I think the record labels pick an artist who will trend on social
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media, will gather audiences that way. But you're not talking...
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You're talking now about major labels, not... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am. Not the Indies.
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The Independents. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the Independents don't do that.
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No, Independents don't do that, but the Major Labels. Yeah, yeah, the Major Labels, yeah.
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And then you get to... It's like anything now, isn't it?
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It is. The corporate things. Oh, yeah.
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It is. A few artists have now left their Major Labels, haven't they?
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And they moved to be independent, and it's great to see that.
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So Ray, one of... I really like the artist Ray.
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She wasn't able to produce the sort of art that she wanted.
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So she left her major label and now she's got an
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independent album and her recent one which is called this music
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may contain hope is a piece of art you listen
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to it from the start to finish it goes through four seasons and that's
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exactly how she intended it to be listened to like you said i think
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what we want to listen to over dinner which is
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completely different to how we used to listen to music before we
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started getting back to vinyls i often find that
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bands are making more money with the live scenes you buy a t-shirt
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if you go to a gig at 12 quid the t-shirt makes them
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their profit and and that's really important to them yeah yeah it's a shame
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isn't it like and it just it feels like it because i guess this is one of those
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buck in the day but you know like the ticket prices have obviously gone up so
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much and it does make music quite exclusive in some ways but obviously you want
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bands to be able to like make a livelihood out of it so i think it feels trickier for them but.
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I think there's still loads of mint music out there. Like, you know,
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whether it's like, there's some like really great, like I feel like last year
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was a really good year for like pop.
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Like there was so much good pop out last year. Yes. But like,
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like Rosalia's album, whether you want to call it pop or whatever you want to call that, incredible.
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Even do you like Sabrina Carpenter's, but then you can go back to like all of
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the other stuff that's like less commercial and still loads of good stuff is coming out.
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So like, I don't know. I really like a lot of the stuff that's out at the moment,
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but it's like every, every generation is.
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And there's always like a, a reminisce to the old times and the way it used
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to be. But yeah, I don't know.
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There's some exciting stuff out at the moment. I feel like a podcast coming
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on here. We just stay all day. But here, best of luck with your purchases.
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It did stay dry, didn't it? Yes. Mapping my merry wallopers.
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I'm hoping it's still there. Will you be going for a quick pint after this to
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celebrate? Later, we'll maybe. Okay. Well, okay. Good luck. All right. Lovely speech here.
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You're listening to The Late Late Lunch Show. Back to the garden childcare,
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where little explorers grow naturally.
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So down here at Tasty Records, queuing up, and what's a little bit of a win
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now is Mark from Stockport. How are you, Mark? Yeah, very good,
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thank you. A bit nippy, but yeah.
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So tell me, have you done this type of thing before, queuing up?
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I went to Piccadilly Records maybe two years ago, and it was similar.
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People camping out and queuing around the block. But first time at Tasty Records.
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And are you looking for something specific, or is it an opportunistic buy?
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My dad is on holiday, so I've been sent by on his behalf, I know, cheeky beggar.
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He's in Vienna and I'm stood here for three hours. So is he a vinyl collector?
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Yeah, he is a bit, yeah. Since the 70s, 80s when he was a kid. Punk rocks.
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Yeah, heavy metal punk rock. So what's he sent you to get? Don't want to say
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it out loud, otherwise it'll jinx it.
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It's a... Oh God, I forgot. Rainbow. Oh, good band.
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Yeah. I don't know many of their songs, but yeah. Since You've Been Gone.
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Since You've Been Gone, I know. It's a classic.
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Yeah, yeah. Although I would argue that there's a better Since You've Been Gone song by 2000 artists.
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I can't remember what they're called. Oh, I know what you mean.
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I know what you mean. I can't remember at all. Are you going to buy anything for yourself?
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No. So The Far-In-Law Wants a Who album. So we'll see about that, but nothing for me.
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And if you could buy anything, what would you buy? For me, there's a Lucy Dacus
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vinyl that's come out that I might have got. But yeah, we'll see when I get there.
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All right. And do you get your music from Spotify, Apple?
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Yeah, more Spotify. I have got a record player, but I don't use it that much.
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It's funny, isn't it? You need to give it time, don't you? Whereas it's sort
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of on your phone or whatever, it's instant. Yeah, it's such a media music.
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It's funny to think we're all queuing up for something that you could go on
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your phone quickly and play within a minute.
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That's retro, isn't it? Yeah, it's old school. Well, here, good luck with your
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purchases. Thanks, mate.
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This is The Late Late Lunch Show with Rod Maxwell on Radio Malti.
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So I'm down here and there's a lady called Sammy queuing. Sammy,
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how long have you been queuing?
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Since 4.30 this morning. Oh, that's quite early.
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Now tell me, what are you specifically looking for? After Taylor Swift, Paramore, Haim.
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Yeah, that's it. And do you collect a lot of vinyl?
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I do. What is it about vinyl that attracts you so much?
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It's cool to have like physical media back instead of just like being on your phone all the time.
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And that thing of physically dropping the needle and the sound,
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do you think it sounds different?
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Yeah, for sure. It definitely sounds different. It's like got a different kind
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of, I don't know how to describe it, but yeah, it's just like sounds cooler.
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And have you been collecting some vinyl over the last week, why over the last
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years? I started collecting in 2022.
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So I actually started on Record Store Day. That was my first record back then.
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So you know what you want is still in there, do you? Yes, I just checked the list now.
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Well, good luck. Thank you. So I've come up the queue, Tasty Records,
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and there's a very tasty stall from the very tasty people at most.
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How are you? Hi, we're great.
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No, I forgot your name again. I'm Lena Wallace.
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No, is this the first time you've come out and have supplied goods for the people on the queue?
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Tasty Records, yes. this is our first event here
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how super is it it's fantastic isn't it
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now are you a lover of music are you a lover
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of vinyl absolutely love music absolutely love
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vinyl in fact i purchased my first vinyl
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on friday as i came to check out
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what we're going to do here today and so we
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had to kind of pop into the shop and my parents actually
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owned a fish and chip shop called tasty fish
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so I was like oh tasty records tasty
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fish what's not to like and actually new order when
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they split up the other two named a
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song after my parent shop called tasty fish and they had it in the shop and
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I bought it on Friday that is amazing what a good story I know where was the
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shop it's in Stockport so opposite the town hall yeah just a little chippy you
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know parents worked really hard.
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Really supplied good stuff. So it just shows you when you supply good products,
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people will come everywhere. Hence the reason why we're here today.
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And I have to say, most is a very good bakery.
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Yeah, very good. Your coffee's good as well. Amazing. I'm glad you said that. Would you like one?
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Would you like to buy one? I will buy one. I will do. Can I ask,
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you're a slightly younger generation.
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I am. How do you listen to your music or consume it?
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Definitely spotify but we
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do like the vinyl i collect a bit myself i
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mean i'm a big taylor swift fan so i have done this before
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yeah so i
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came a few years ago and queued up at 5am i'm very glad to be on the other side
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of it today holding a hot coffee but yeah no so we do we do collect vinyl but
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more as like a collector's piece yeah rather than to listen to it all the time
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yeah And you've got any gigs lined up this year at all?
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Oh, Harry Styles. Yeah.
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Hello, just Harry Styles. Oh, he's all right, our Harry. Oh,
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and Shania Twain is there as well.
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Oh, a bit of country. A bit of country.
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In Wembley Stadium. Night, Shania. That's me.
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What was the last gig you went to? It's the last gig I went to.
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Oh, and Deacon Blue. Do you know what? I've seen Deacon Blue.
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Yeah? And they were actually quite good. They were amazing.
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Yeah? I saw them when I was 16 the first time, and then I saw them in exactly
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the same venue 30 years later. Did they know you?
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Unfortunately not. You know what? I knew all their songs. Well,
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here, good luck. I'm going to get coffee from you and head off.
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Lovely to speak to you both.
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Moose Bakery. Yes. There you go. Yes. Come and join us. Come and buy some goods.
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