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Cross post - Open your own 80s video shop

In aucklandista, film, score! report on 18 February 2008 with 1 comment

The original is on the Aucklandista site
Remember video shops? Rewinding, fixing the tracking, due back by 12? As a lad, I’d spend hours in the corner video shop trawling the likes of Joysticks and Brewsters’s Millions to find the perfect tape for that weekend’s slumber party (it was a more innocent time back then, team).
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In chartered trips, score! report on 14 August 2006 with no comments

An ongoing series in which the blogger shares his budget orientated music and / or movie purchases, revealing something of both his refined taste and an unwillingness to shell out any decent cash for it.
What? Beatles Box Set - 11 albums, plus the Yellow Submarine and Rarities making 13 bits of Beatles vinyl, all in [...]