Pile of Melody Makers and NMEs in the Oxfam bookshop in Bloomsbury - £2 each #JAMC #Blur #MelodyMaker #NME - ThreadSky

spectralheron.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Pile of Melody Makers and NMEs in the Oxfam bookshop in Bloomsbury - £2 each #JAMC #Blur #MelodyMaker #NME

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baronh.bsky.social•15 days ago

Came across my collection during a clearout just before Christmas, used to collect both throughout the 80’s. Some great music room poster material.

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

Tripping down memory lane

blackcheeseburger.bsky.social•13 days ago

Checking train schedules now.

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

💷🤑

leocameron99.bsky.social•15 days ago

Is the guy from blur H from steps

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

😆

grantkmcdougall.bsky.social•15 days ago

I almost certainly would've bought both of those in real time.

licknowe.bsky.social•15 days ago

£2 in Oxfam? That's practically giving them away for free

soozworld.bsky.social•15 days ago

Looks like my era!! I gave most of my NMEs to my local record shop to sell, then they closed down so probably went in the bin 😢

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hopefully someone bought them to wallpaper some dive bar walls

soozworld.bsky.social•13 days ago

🙏🏼 yes anywhere, just not pulped 😱

jamescurran.bsky.social•15 days ago

Used to have a massive pile of NME's from the 90's. Suspect reality of being a grown up saw them head off for recycling

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yup decluttering ended my pile too

parramaterial.bsky.social•15 days ago

Wow what years are those? That's the kind of thing I would buy a few. I've a stack of 95-97 which I really need to get rid of in a lot, that's when I was purchasing for Virgin Megastore and so I was given them weekly. But it was the rise of Britpop, they are not great years for music journalism...

hobbsy.bsky.social•14 days ago

I still regret throwing all my NME/MM collection in the recycling 😱

I'm hoping one day someone will scan in all the old copies from 80/90/00s era and stick them on Archive dot org

spectralheron.bsky.social•13 days ago

This should be my retirement project as an archivist….

homerjtoblerone.bsky.social•15 days ago

Wonderful! Brings back many happy memories. That Reading Festival was my first one and saw JAMC many times. But also the joy of settling down to a deep dive interview 🤓