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I just spent stupid amounts of cash. Please tell me I'm not a moron. Or, if you think I am, then who am I to argue?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:11 / 09.01.03

I just bough the Throbbing Gristle "TG24" box set. It is, indeed, a thing of wonder (and once I've listened to all 24 hours of it, the Music shall be graced by a thread that will probably be be incoherent cos, hey, it'll've been written by a guy who's just listened to 24 fucking HOURS of Throbbing Gristle).

I paid TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE FUCKING QUID for it.

And I already knew it was retailing at £180. It's just that I'd spent an entire afternoon looking for it (with the cash) and finding that everyone had sold out but would have some back in a couple of weeks. By which time, of course, I'd be skint. So when I finally found a copy...

Hmmm. I think I may have been a little foolish.

But really. You gotta see it. It's ace. It comes with a certificate signed by all four of the fuckers, a really cool booklet, two (count 'em, TWO) sew-on TG patches, some stickers and badges... and all the extra stuff comes in an envelope with a wax TG lightning-flash seal. Oh yeah, you get 24 CDs as well.

I'm still undecided. But every time I think of my depleted funds and my inevitable penury, I look at it and go "Whoah!"

Sorry.

Just thought I'd share it with yez, having just ruined myself buying the fucker.

19:28 / 09.01.03

As long as you've not made yourself homeless, no biggie. You obviously wanted it bad. Ach, this time next month you'll have forgotten all about paying a little extra. And TG24 will be there for you to enjoy whenever you like!

20:04 / 09.01.03

Proud. You made a huge effort to find what you wanted and sacrificed something significant to get it. Just enjoy it.

20:17 / 09.01.03

You can do what you want mate, Just don't bring it round my house.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:25 / 09.01.03

Hah. If I get a good enough set of speakers up in my window, you'll be able to HEAR it at your house without it ever leaving my door!

20:29 / 09.01.03

well done, is all i say yer lucky and sexy twat.
am fucin' wel gel.

20:34 / 09.01.03

You know, if you can afford it and it makes you happy... fuck it. What else is money for, apart from making you happy?

Says fridge, currently engaged in spending as much money as he possibly can on Mac gadgets, ooh, I want one of those 22" flat panels...

20:42 / 09.01.03

It's something you wanted, and evidently not an impulse buy either, if you wandered round London armed with the cash - so I wouldn't worry about it as long as you've enough money to survive. But then, every time I have an upswing, I spend a small fortune (not real money - credit card, innit. Christ.), and to the best of my knowledge I've never heard any Throbbing Gristle, so I'm probably not the best person to reassure you.

20:52 / 09.01.03

No wonder the economy of moominvally is in the toilet... although its citizens have all the throbing gristle they could ever possibly need...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:01 / 09.01.03

I tell ya, sleaze, the badgers dig TG like nothing on earth...

22:15 / 09.01.03

Could anyone explain Throbbing Gristle's occult connections?

22:44 / 09.01.03

obviously this is a classic compilation but what else(preferably cheaper) is worth listening to album wise? is the 24 hr thingie their best work? Reading Julian cope book at the moment and he describes TG if i recall as 'sick' which is quite a compliment coming from him

22:45 / 09.01.03

and do you plan to use it for occult work chairman?

04:51 / 10.01.03

If you wanted it, and can afford it, then why not? There's a funny article here by a guy who bought it and listened to it all in 24 hours.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,867116,00.html

Enjoy!

07:37 / 10.01.03

Are you planning on listening to the whole thing in one sitting? Because if you are, you could post here about your feelings, reactions etc. and that'd be pretty damn cool...

07:44 / 10.01.03

From the sounds of the above post - he's going to make ME listen to it it all in one sitting. Quite partial to a bit of TG actually. Not for 24 hours though.

16:10 / 10.01.03

Are you also into Coil then?

Authors Aside: The Brainwashed and NME websites/e-zines/publications have always been a really decent source of inspiration for me to stumble across the glitchy, experimental, atmospheric compilations of just these sorts of taciturn music-makers over the years.

Always interested in finding a fellow comrade.

Gold is the metal with the broadest shoulders

16:11 / 10.01.03

Ooh...24 hrs of the bastards? Sounds like a good deal to me. A hard drive to hold all of the mp3z would have run the same price, if you want to look at it that way.

And fridge...I'm working from a 22" right now...the 23"'s seems much better (resolution) but that price is even stiffer. Look at: Dealmac to save money on a floor model.

16:13 / 10.01.03

ACH DU!

Digital relic kills and eats it's own repost demon.

my apologies folks.

(speaking of glitchy. heh heh.)

17:05 / 10.01.03

and my tribute to Stoatie's extravagance (with guest appearance by Genesis P Orridge) here.

Now I need to learn how to make them all the same size...

(It was a really busy day at work today, obviously.)

05:21 / 11.01.03

Could anyone explain Throbbing Gristle's occult connections?

Throbbing Gristle was a predecessor to Psychick TV, which was closely associated with the Temple ov Psychick Youth, a seminal chaos magick group.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:54 / 11.01.03

"and do you plan to use it for occult work chairman?"

I think at the very least I should make a new Dreamachine.

Believe it or not, I still haven't listened to any of it. It seems far too cool to just bung on a few minutes here and there between doing other stuff. I'm waiting for a proper "sitting down with headphones on" opportunity. Maybe work on Tuesday night, I should be able to do a few hours then.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:55 / 11.01.03

Oh, and Relic- Coil are the absolute greatest.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:59 / 11.01.03

Ariadne If you wanted it, and can afford it, then why not? There's a funny article here by a guy who bought it and listened to it all in 24 hours.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,867116,00.html

At one stage, I doze off and wake to the sound of P-Orridge singing the old music-hall number Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend? to a backing that sounds like two cybermen kicking a dustbin around an alley.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:37 / 11.01.03

Oh, seanmcglinchey- I'd say either "20 Jazz-Funk Greats" (balanced amounts of nicely progressive electronica, noise, and scary stuff), "Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits" (similar breakdown, but with some fucked-up noise reworkings of other tracks EG "Slug Bait"), "First Annual Report" (quite simply a classic) or my personal favourite (which I don't actually own, and which I must get soon) "Heathen Earth" (two 23-minute tracks recorded live in a studio in front of an audience, therefore being live but simultaneously well-recorded. "Sitting in a cafe in Tangiers... the old man smiled..." Burroughs-tastic).

23:27 / 11.01.03

I don't think you are a moron, I think that spending stupid amounts of cash merely brands you as a "consumer".

The fact that I think that our consumer based society is, by it's very nature, moronic might, I suppose, mean that you are, by extension, a moron doesn't matter because if you are then so are all of us.

Spend and be proud, it's one of the few fun things society actually encourages.

23:51 / 11.01.03

I frequently appear to have absolutely no understanding of the value of money, spending it as soon as I have it and suffering for my (extremely low-scale) decadence immediately afterwards. I therefore view you as a comrade and brother.

Spendthrifts unite! We have nothing to lose but the shirts off our backs.

05:06 / 12.01.03

Spendthrifts unite! We have nothing to lose but the shirts off our backs.

Oh, ghods! Puh-leeze don't encourage me!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:40 / 12.01.03

Cholister asked: "Are you planning on listening to the whole thing in one sitting? Because if you are, you could post here about your feelings, reactions etc. and that'd be pretty damn cool..."

I think one sitting may be a little ambitious for my fragile mind, but I'm attempting something similar. It's in the Music.

11:53 / 12.01.03

Coolness. Another classic Barbe-thread, no doubt.

Brigade du jour

20:15 / 13.01.03

Of course you're not a moron, you pillock. But you are a pillock. But that makes me one too, I spent way too much money Monday. That was after the pub - i went to Carnaby Street and bought a wicked long-sleeved Clash t-shirt. That was like in honour of JS though, so that's allowed. Oh and a couple of CDs. Oh and some other shit.

It felt nice for a while, retail therapy and all that. But these happy feelings never last, maybe because the stuff you buy never lasts ... hmmm ...