On Friday night, July 21st, after we ate at VYNL we walked to Times Square. We entered the Virgin Music mega store at about 11:30pm and didn’t leave until almost 1:00am. Why? Well because we had to buy all the things we didn’t know we needed.
80s music was on sale. We bought CD copies of artists we own on LPs and cassettes. I walked away with Sinead O’Connor’s first album The Lion and the Cobra, Thomas Dolby’s The Golden Age of Wireless, featuring She Blinded Me With Science and One of Our Submarines. I also picked up a 3 CD compilation of 12” remixes of 80s anthems. Among the remixed tracks: Love comes quickly by the Pet Shop Boys, Oblivious by Aztec Camera, Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears, Trampoline by Julian Cope, The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunny Men, Brand New Friend by Llyod Cole and the Commotions among other 80s gems.
The B man picked N.W.A for when we cruise through the streets of Compton, as well as Catching Up With Depeche Mode for the track Blasphemous Rumors , Purple Rain by Prince and a now almost forgotten semi-classic, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Wow, remember their cover of Springsteen’s Born to Run (I think we’ll give that one heavy rotation in the car) or the power love ballad The Power of Love?
So, over $200.00 later we walked out with shopping bags full of memories. Credit cards are great things, aren’t they?
P.S. I also found a DVD copy of the documentary Harlan County, USA, the fabulous academy award winning story of a strike by coal miners in the 1970s. Check it out if you have a chance.
UNION YES!
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