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quoted 5 lines From: - Greg Earle <earle@isolar.tujunga.ca.us>

> From: - Greg Earle <earle@isolar.tujunga.ca.us> > > Only 4 1/2 years to 40-something-hood, > > - Greg

So I'm older than you @36 2/3. Am I the oldest denizen of IDM?

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, - Greg Earle wrote:

quoted 3 lines What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all

> What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all > this stuff. Being as how we're in the era of "I just spent US$115 and all > I got were 4 import CDs and 2 import CDS's ... "

Ah, you just forego the nonessentials, like rent and food. :) I'm lucky enough to live near a shop that that runs a rather large distribution business, so their import prices aren't much higher than their domestic ones. | Dave Walker, Detroit Art Services (DAS) | | | | marmoset@msen.com At this point things get a little hazy. |

In <9404141940.AA10952@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> you wrote :

quoted 4 lines (Plus, it can have its benefits - even IDM-wise. I saw Kraftwerk ... I saw

>(Plus, it can have its benefits - even IDM-wise. I saw Kraftwerk ... I saw > Bowie do "Warszawa" live ... I saw "Live at the YMCA"-era Cabaret Voltaire ... > etc.) >

Mmmm, i'm 24 and i saw Kraftwerk too (a year ago), and "Plasticity"-era Cabaret Voltaire. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Veneman veneman@tv99ad.hacktic.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, - Greg Earle wrote:

quoted 5 lines What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all this

> What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all this > stuff. Being as how we're in the era of "I just spent US$115 and all I got > were 4 import CDs and 2 import CDS's ... " It just costs WAY too much money to > keep up with music these days, *sigh* ... >

For those of us "young'uns" who aren't djs or computer engineers/programmers (though I don't know what _that_ has to do with anything, except making $$$) there is a simple way to make "important" ends meet: Step 1) Apply for credit -- both Visa & MC make it *real* easy for students to get credit cards (they *like* students. Students = $$interest$$ Step 2) Apply for Student Loan (these are trickier -- gotta be more creative) Step 3) Buy lotsa CDs when you have money cuz these can be used like coupons later (note:only at buy & sell record shops) Step 4) Tell your parents you had to buy books, pay for that Mother's Day phone call, pay back your roomate for the cable bill etc... Step 5) This step can come anywhere in the list. Go CD shopping!!! If at any time, despite Steps 1-5 you have no food for more than 2 days, go to the Food Bank. At least they understand. Well, that's how I do it anyway. In fact, my growlin' tummy isn't bothering me right now cuz I know my special orders are coming in from Cargo tomorrow :) Crispin | \|/ -- * -- peace, love and trance cbailey@julian.uwo.ca /|\ |

quoted 4 lines If at any time, despite Steps 1-5 you have no food for more than 2 days,

> If at any time, despite Steps 1-5 you have no food for more than 2 days, > go to the Food Bank. At least they understand. Well, that's how I do it > anyway. In fact, my growlin' tummy isn't bothering me right now cuz I > know my special orders are coming in from Cargo tomorrow :)

We would always go be blood whores down at the plasma center and get a quick 15 bux. That *used* to be enough for a new rekkid and a six pack... |<:*} Now, with choons being so 'spensive and all, after a long night of blood whorin', we just pick up a coupla 40s and a homeboy huggy and stagger back to the trailer park.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael King mike%delta1@rex.cs.tulane.edu Delta Systems New Orleans, LA 70002 Voice: 504.837.9835 Fax: 504.837.9838 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never under estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with mag tapes. -Karl Kleinpaste, postmaster Ohio State University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, - Greg Earle wrote:

quoted 3 lines What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all

> What I'd *really* like to know is how all you young'uns keep up with all > this stuff. Being as how we're in the era of "I just spent US$115 and all > I got were 4 import CDs and 2 import CDS's ... "

Actually being 30+ seems worse for keeping up: when I go to a record store, I want the idm things I'm interested in, PLUS industrial and experimental sound releases, the weird progressive releases I've followed for years (new and cd reissues), jazz, odd rock bands, all the solo artists I've been collecting over the years, downtown nyc scene releases, avante classical, soundtracks, world music, other indescribable records... It never ends, and every year I know a little bit more about the tendrils of the music world. It's to the point that I'm almost afraid when someone plays me something really good that I know nothing about :) Phil Z