View Full Version : Would you queue up at midnight for a CD?
douglasb
10-11-2009, 09:32
Given the last computer game I played with any degree of intensity was Sabre Wulf, all the stuff about midnight openings and taking days off work to play the new releases has passed me by.
I have vague memories of shops opening early for a new U2 album or something, but now with leaks and streaming, most new releases are met with a big dose of the Meh. The actual disc is almost something you buy out of duty just to file away.
Is there anything that would still get you queueing outside a shop?
Games are the new rock 'n' roll though, innit*. Guns N Roses was the last album I remember there being a midnight hype launch, though, for Use Your Illision 1&2. Personal appearances and gigs still generate a lot of hype - like when Blur did their gigs at Rough Trade etc. So it still happens, just not for their albums which is probably how it should be.
*I'm sure bands make more money now from their Rock Band sales than they do from CD sales. I bought Pearl Jam's new album as a Rock Band add-on. :dork:
Mr Majestik
10-11-2009, 10:19
I bought Oasis Be hear now at 8.A.M on the day of release and got a special certificate!
It's not quite the same nowadays as i'm usually fed up of an album by the time it's released thanks to the internet. (Legally and not so legally)
(To be fair a lot of the queuing for the game is because it's £20 cheaper.)
Johnny Vodka
10-11-2009, 12:28
No. Not even if Shed Seven came back.
There wasnt a queue but I made sure I got Metallica's Death Magnetic from Asda at midnight:dork:
Would I **** as like! Not unless the artist(s) were there signing it personally. Even then it would have to be someone I really, really liked.
I think I've only ever done one midnight opening queue for something and I can't even remember what it was for... I think it was the Star Wars Executioner VHS boxed set.
RomerojpgX
10-11-2009, 16:31
Would I **** as like! Not unless the artist(s) were there signing it personally. Even then it would have to be someone I really, really liked.
:thumbs: Yup me too. Meeting the artist is about the only reaon to cue.
Why anyone would cue for a CD or even a game is beyond me :lol: sounds just soo sad, like them people who cue up for consoles for hours on end :lol: some days before in tents :cuckoo:
SIMON ADEBISI
10-11-2009, 16:45
Maybe, if Layne Staley was still alive and signing a copy for me
:(
If Daft Punk were signing copies...
robzinski
10-11-2009, 20:19
The only album I've ever queued up before a shop opened was for Be Here Now. I'm not arsed about any current band to do it for any CD now.
Like Mr Majestic and robzinski I have only ever done it for Be Here Now. If it had been released now and I had been able to hear it on the internet I could have saved myself £15 :lol:
RomerojpgX
10-11-2009, 21:03
I would cue up all night to avoid ever hearing crap like Oasis :lol: or to chuck a bottle at their heads.
campdave
11-11-2009, 07:08
The only album I've ever queued up before a shop opened was for Be Here Now. I'm not arsed about any current band to do it for any CD now.
Talk about massive anti-climax
eye__writ
11-11-2009, 09:31
Seems that a lot people queued for Be Here Now. Me too! Straight in to Woolworths at midnight with my Sony Discman in my pocket so I wouldn't have to wait to get home to listen to it! :dork:
And it wasn't an anti-climax either - I love Be Here Now :suspect: :razz:
These days I'd only queue if Katy Perry was signing new copies of her album nekked. But I don't download albums or listen to leaked ones, so the CD release is still the main event for me. And the nipples of course.
hookbeak
11-11-2009, 10:05
if i was that bothered about hearing something asap, i'd have downloaded it when it was leaked a few weeks before then picked up the CD after it was released...
douglasb
11-11-2009, 10:47
Mondays used to be such a big deal. Despite living in the back of beyond, there was a local record shop that did the chart returns (sales counted towards the charts) - this meant they got all the ltd editions and stuff in so you went in on a Monday to check everything out. I miss all that.
agent999
11-11-2009, 11:08
I always laugh at the sad gits in news reports queueing up for midnight releases. That is until those people got a free Sony TV with their PS3s! I remember one sad nutsack queing up for some Beatles release (may have been the Anthology) and claiming he was going to be the first in the world to have it. Yeah, right. However there is that amusing clip of a young smack free Pete Docherty getting excited about queuing for Be Here Now. One local record shop always used to let regulars get the new releases under the counter on Saturdays anyway.
welshmatt
11-11-2009, 11:24
I did once for the Manics album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours but only because they were signing copies in Cardiff.
Didn't get away in time for the last train home so had to sleep in the train station for a few hours getting back to Newport about 5am. Then after waiting for the bus home by the depot the driver totally ignored us so we had a 3 mile walk home. And the album was not good.
Never again.
Wasn't there a video of a guy in a queue at a midnight opening for a 360 or Wii or something then smashing it up when he finally got it? :lol:
It could have been an iPhone...
My last midnight purchase of anything (24 hour supermarket shopping doesn't count) was X-Files on VHS!
The-tonemeister
11-11-2009, 12:26
I remember queueing a couple of times back in the 90's:
Machine Head were signing copies of The More Things Change at the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street, at midnight
Therapy? were signing copies of Infernal Love at HMV on Oxford Street at midnight, they also gave away tickets to a 'secret' gig at the Scala for the following week!!
Both times I fell asleep on a park bench at Victoria waiting for the first coach back to Swindon!!
Happy days.:)
TM
Last time was when Rammstein did a Halloween midnight signing for the Rosenrot album when that came out. Can't remember the year though.
I'd maybe join a torrent queue at midnight but that's about it ;)
LAst album I bought on day of release was MJ's dangerous in Nov '91.
It's very much a kiddy thing isn't it? Do real adults queue for such trivialities?
:eek:
I wouldn't queue for any CD unless it was for an item that was limited in quantity.
EdgeOfVictory
12-11-2009, 12:39
Another Be Here Now person. Think that was the last time
Although I did hall my dad out of bed at 5am to take me to queue outside Virgin for a N64 on launch day
Personally I've only ever queued up for Oasis tickets in 95 or 96, and GTA IV a couple of years ago.
I honestly couldn't tell you what the last CD I bought was - I'd practically forgotten that they even sold them anymore!
Mondays used to be such a big deal. Despite living in the back of beyond, there was a local record shop that did the chart returns (sales counted towards the charts) - this meant they got all the ltd editions and stuff in so you went in on a Monday to check everything out. I miss all that.
Same here (sigh)
robzinski
13-11-2009, 18:19
Talk about massive anti-climax
I still love Be Here Now(Well, barring Magic Pie which I hate).
Personally I've only ever queued up for Oasis tickets in 95 or 96, and GTA IV a couple of years ago.
Queued up overnight at the NIA for the 1997 Oasis tour. Got the train into Birmingham at about 4pm, to find that the queue was already all the way along the front from the box office and a third of the way along the second side. Was all the way around the building and down the steps come the morning.
The really odd thing was that we'd just gone to the NIA a couple of months before and just walked up to the box office at about 11am to get tickets for the Knebworth gigs. Not a single person in the queue then.
Queued up overnight at the NIA for the 1997 Oasis tour. Got the train into Birmingham at about 4pm, to find that the queue was already all the way along the front from the box office and a third of the way along the second side. Was all the way around the building and down the steps come the morning.
Try explaining that to the kids today..."I had to get up at 5 to 8 this morning and hit F5 till I nearly broke a nail...The lengths I have to go to, to see my favourite band... " :)
welshmatt
13-11-2009, 23:19
I did an overnight queue for that Oasis tour too, outside the CIA in Cardiff. Went out on the beers and got there about midnight to find about a hundred people there. Promptly passed out and woke up about 15 mins before tickets went on sale to find the queue snaking all the way around the building.
And I bought a spare that I sold on for 3x face value in the freeads, the house phone didnt stop ringing for a week!
DeadYankee
15-11-2009, 13:32
I saw Oasis in Newport TJs - the queue almost reached the shop next door
I remember buying tix for Oasis at Norwich Arts Centre (94 ?) I was the only one at the till :D
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