I finally learned how to use a record player this weekend, without worrying about scratching a record.
Friday afternoon we did a little shopping and got Doug some shorts. That store just happened to be in the same strip mall as an awesome little record store, Backspin Records. Amazingly, Doug didn't get anything this trip. But, I did. They have a bunch of 80s records and some fantastic New Wave stuff. I ended up with 3- Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys and Falco. Why I bought and entire Falco record, I'll never know, but it has the original version of Der Kommissar and that is an awesome song.
Anyway, Saturday I finally had a chance to listen to the records so Doug showed me how to use the record player. Now, I've always been around record players- this is not ancient technology to me. But, I wasn't always allowed to touch them, which is why I'm always afraid I'll scratch up the records. I can handle it now, though, and we listened to Duran Duran and Pet Shop Boys while we cleaned up the house and got ready for dinner Saturday night.
As we're cleaning in the living room, we had this little conversation:
Me: What was that?
Doug: It skipped. They do that. Welcome to 1984.
Me: Oh.
A few minutes later
Me: The music sounds so different.
Doug: Yea, welcome to music in 1984.
It's taken me a while to catch up, but I now regress further into the 80s every day.
I guess I was too protective of albums, huh ?!??!
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