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JwRosenthal
·What's a CD?
Shopping ~ A Smoldering Cesspool of Jive
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.TJ’s, Ace Hardware, West Marine, ABT Electronics…all local. Avoided Bezos for XMass I guess. Mulling gifting my Chronoscope to my Bauhaus /Brutalism fan kid.
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redpcar
·Last time I saw a CD player was in my 2004 4Runner.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.It was a mini silver record-an artifact of the late 20th century. People said it was better than vinyl records but we know now that they were just delusional and chose ease of use and portability over sound quality and archivability . You can still find them in dollar stores with Christmas music on them for old people.
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josiahg52
·In the mall, fye will burn songs you choose or an entire album from their vast collection to a CD and apply a custom label or the original album art and print fitted liner notes in about 15 minutes. I'm constantly impressed with their ability to burn obscure and out of production classical CDs for me. There is also a company with about a dozen stores in the region that sells used and new CDs, vinyl, DVDs, games, BluRay, and a LOT of other media and random stuff for quite cheap. I will drop a hundred or so there frequently. The mall is dying but there's half a dozen or so people when I visit fye so I hooe that if the mall dies that fye looks to move to another location. The regional company does a good job sizing their stores and inventory to the local area and can get anything from the other stores very quickly.
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sxl2004
·I went to buy a friend a music CD (Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues) but found there was no shop in Cambridge selling CDs of classical music. Cambridge is supposed to be a rather intellectual city (as is the other big-ish Cambridge on the Charles River) so that was rather surprising. My friend doesn't do streaming so that wrecked this present idea.
I'll have to wrap up an IOU somehow ....
your best bet is Newbury comics
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johnireland
·I stopped buying Christmas Gifts for people years ago. Nobody I know needs anything. I spend time with them and enjoy family and friendship. I give the gift of money to random people I see on the street who look truly needy. I don't wait for someone to ask me for help, I go looking for them. I engage them, spend some time talking with them, acknowledging them. I look them in the eye, I shake their hands, ask them their name and tell them mine. And then I give them what feels right to me...what I sense will make the moment good for them, make them feel less alone and more part of the human family. Ten, twenty, sometimes forty, and for a couple, even up to one hundred. I give what I can afford because I have something and many of them have nothing. Merry Christmas everyone.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerTouché. Maybe not one of my finest ideas. Guess I’m just too used to burning my own when I need them. Haven’t bought a CD in over 15 years. I still have hundreds of blank CD/DVDs that I’ll never use. But it’s the thought that counts, right? 😵💫
Don't let the cynics get you down. Actually it would take more time and effort to do this, so as the receiver of such a gift, I would feel like you valued my friendship more than someone who just clicked on Amazon while sitting on the toilet...
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JwRosenthal
·….more than someone who just clicked on Amazon while sitting on the toilet...
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bananapeanut
·I closed my Amazon account last year and not going back. I still shop online but mostly from reputable brands that have their own website and they all do. I also think that everybody should keep making the effort of shopping locally as much as possible to support brick and mortar store owners. It would suck to live in a world where you can only shop online but it feels like that's where we're heading. As for Christmas gifts, I ask people (or someone close to them) what they want beforehand. It makes my life easier and them happier.
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JwRosenthal
·I closed my Amazon account last year and not going back. I still shop online but only from reputable brands that have their own website and they all do. I also think that everybody should keep making the effort of shopping locally as much as possible to support brick and mortar store owners. It would suck to live in a world where you can only shop online but it feels like that's where we're heading. As for Christmas gifts, I ask people (or someone close to them) what they want beforehand. It makes my life easier and them happier.
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Aroxx
·Don't let the cynics get you down. Actually it would take more time and effort to do this, so as the receiver of such a gift, I would feel like you valued my friendship more than someone who just clicked on Amazon while sitting on the toilet...
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bananapeanut
·+1 to brick and mortar. We had a fabulous family owned video store here that stocked rare and OOp films from all over the world as well as popular stuff. They outlived blockbuster and Hollywood video etc well into the mid teens and finally has to close. On the local neighborhood chat board, people started bemoaning their closing and I finally asked “when was the last time you went in there?” Most everyone said it had been years as Netflix was easier, 😒
I miss video stores so bad. It would have been tough to make it through teenagehood without them.
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JwRosenthal
·I miss video stores so bad.
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Evitzee
·This place was special- they carried all forms of film media including beta and reel film if that was the last media a film had been released on - and they maintained and rented the equipment to play it (yes, you could rent projectors and screens from them). The couple that owned it were avid film buffs and kept it going in their final years off their savings, long time staff that had to find employment elsewhere would volunteer in their spare time as they loved the owners but couldn’t pay them anymore. It’s was a tragic loss
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SC1
·Sounds like they were so enamored with their 'project' that they used their savings to keep it going, a negative cash flow business. Their choice, of course, but not wise for their financial health. It was a loss for the locals who were benefiting from a service that was economically unsound and was going to falter eventually. The owners might have been great people with some sort of vision, but it was a poor business model. Video stores no longer exist because they can't make money, we can pine for the good old days but good vibes don't pay the bills.
...and Ho-Ho-Ho to you too.
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SkunkPrince
·I am not ashamed to shop online, and I feel for the merchants around here, but good grief, if they can't be bothered to stock or at least order for you, then they can expect my business elsewhere. While Milwaukee isn't the largest town around, my time is worth something too, and getting something esoteric locally pretty much ain't gonna happen, and many stores aren't stocking more than a few brands anyways.
It's tiring trying to search every darn place for something you want and have to settle for your third choice.
That said, Home Depot stocks good tools, I eat local independent restaurants when I can, and goodness knows my gas tax goes to fixing roads.
It's tiring trying to search every darn place for something you want and have to settle for your third choice.
That said, Home Depot stocks good tools, I eat local independent restaurants when I can, and goodness knows my gas tax goes to fixing roads.
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S.H.
·It really depends where you live nowadays... out in the boonies or in a small town you are out of luck to get anything proper. I suffer from some problems from living in a bigger town (cost of living, home prices through the roof, density, etc) but shopping locally is all right:
- mom : got a cool small Seiko 5 that was unfortunately out of stock last week at the local Seiko boutique - they rushed one over the weekend for me to pick up - 200m from work
- pop (and mom too 😁) : high end dark chocolate, 100m from work
- duck paté with foie gras for friends : I bike every sunday to buy groceries at the farmer's market anyway, 5min from home
- a Megaquartz 32khz and a Gub Glashutte for friends : well, my workshop in the city center, 0m
Cool gifts I think, and no real bother on my end.
- mom : got a cool small Seiko 5 that was unfortunately out of stock last week at the local Seiko boutique - they rushed one over the weekend for me to pick up - 200m from work
- pop (and mom too 😁) : high end dark chocolate, 100m from work
- duck paté with foie gras for friends : I bike every sunday to buy groceries at the farmer's market anyway, 5min from home
- a Megaquartz 32khz and a Gub Glashutte for friends : well, my workshop in the city center, 0m
Cool gifts I think, and no real bother on my end.
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MRC
·In the mall, fye will burn songs you choose or an entire album from their vast collection to a CD and apply a custom label or the original album art and print fitted liner notes in about 15 minutes.
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