Bitter sweet because I’m pretty this means we lost real one. RIP

It’s church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff away.

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    Thrift stores won’t even set them out anymore. They go straight to ebay.

    Look for the ones that are run by a church or charity. They’re less greedy and profit motivated. They get tons of retro professional music equipment from churches updating their media stuff.

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      They go straight to ebay.

      This annoys me so much. Our culture became a weird mix of nostalgia-hoardy and desperation to make a quick buck because most jobs are next to worthless anymore.

      Everything became a speculative scarcity-obsessed stock market good, and it sucks.

      That’s one thing I enjoy about digital stuff: All you need is one good hard copy in existence, and somebody can replicate and archive it for generations to come. “Piracy” really is preservation in this case.