On 29/06/07, Dismuke wrote: > >> Perhaps people are just too stupid or have no taste. > > > Or they are victims of a popular culture that > introduces them to nothing but garbage. They don't > know anything better - because for so many years, > unless one was fortunate enough to have cultured > family members or other influences, it was almost > impossible for kids with limited spending money to > access other music. All that was there was AM/FM type > drivel. Fortunately in Britain we had the late John Peel to broaden everyone's tastes. And there is still a big variety of music played on the BBC, although Peel is irreplaceable. > Thankfully, the Internet today gives kids who > are willing to explore new genres the opportunity to > do so. And, of course, there are always plenty of > those who pick their taste in music on the same basis > that they pick their taste in clothing - they are > mindless sheep who are trying ape their peers who are, > in turn, mindless sheep trying to ape everyone else. > > >> The selection at >> Target, Wal-Mart, and the like, remind me of that >> little rack of >> cassette tapes they have at every mega truck stop. >> "Tammy Wynette and >> "old possum face's" greatest duets" and the complete >> works of ZZ Top. > > > There actually are people out there whose tastes and > approach to life never advances beyond that of "If > Wal-mart don't got it, you don't need it." > > Don't get me wrong - I love Wal-mart when it comes to > buying things such as basic groceries and garden > hoses. I was about to say that cheap mass market stuff > has its place but not in the world of music. But then > I forgot - I LOVE the wonderful "dime store" dance > band music sold in the day's Wal-mart equivelents back > in the late 1920s and early 1930s. So there is nothing > inherently bad about mass market tastes, per se. It > all comes back to the pop culture. Taste and style > went out the window after World War II and fell into > the sewer in the 1960s and has yet to dry off, let > alone recover. > >> >> So where is the store in Ft Worth? I go there to >> buy >> surplus/used/military/aviation tubes and parts for >> radio and hi-fi >> restorations. > > > It is on University directly across from the TCU > campus. I THINK it is called "Record Town" - but I > may be mistaken. Regardless, you cannot miss it as it > has a big 1950s vintage sign showing a record with an > RCA Victor label. Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]