On 24/01/2011 6:11 PM, andrel wrote:
> On 24-1-2011 18:42, Stephen wrote:
>> On 24/01/2011 5:30 PM, andrel wrote:
>>> (Yes, I know a shop that works that way. Even to the extend that I can
>>> tell people that want to give me a present (happens about once a year)
>>> to go there and tell it is for me).
>>
>> LOL “I’d like to buy a record for that weird PovRay guy.” ;-)
>
> You can just use my name, but indeed, he knows I'm wierd.

Aren't we all? ;-)

>
>> You’re lucky to have such a nice shop, BTW.
>
> Quite a lot of music that I like now, I would not have known without
> him. It makes me a bit sad that the generation after me won't have this
> luxury. He started when you could make a living out of it. Enough to pay
> of his mortgage. If he had started now he wouldn't have a chance. both
> the internet and the record companies that don't want to support small
> shops. Takes too much time and they can more easily sell via the
> internet shops. We have had a situation where he ordered a CD for me and
> they simply did not deliver. After a few months waiting I bought it via
> Amazon and had it within a week.

It is good that you (and some others, I presume) are supporting him.
I sometimes despair for the world that the young are growing up in. 
Don’t get me wrong, there are lots of things in the modern world that 
are better than the one I grew up in. But personal contact and service 
are getting lost.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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