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Good things about the recession

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    :naughty: Stop trolling Stevie.
    :rotfl: Sorry got to be done.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • WTF?_2
    WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    Do they? Such as?

    X-factor.
    Pop Idol.
    ... all that 'instant success' crud.

    Some of the performers are talented, no doubt, but there's more to making good, enduring music than winning a glorified talent contest and being turned into an instant star.

    One of the reasons the music industry is in the mess it is is because residual sales from music from the near past have collapsed - there's no long term profit in selling back catalogue from manufactured bands and 'stars' who are forgetten after a brief rush of fame. They still make an enormous amount of money from back catalogue music from before when it became all about manufacturing success, though.
    --
    Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    Please tell me you were joking. Or do you mean they'll be letting out their floor space to the recently repossessed to kip on? That would certainly be more profitable than trying to flog houses right now.

    EA's rent out houses as well as sell them they make money on both.
    As I said people always need somwhere to live but do they need somwhere to buy a sandwich etc?
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    :naughty: Stop trolling Stevie.

    Is that like some sort of sarcastic joke? Rolling over laughing my f*cking head off. I thought i'd write it instead of inserting that little yellow smiling face that rolls side to side.
  • mummytofour
    mummytofour Posts: 2,636 Forumite
    Personally I have had my eyes opened. I have always struggled financially. I had my first child at 19 and altho I was working and had a mortgage I think having the finical responsibility straight off with never having a chance to really save anything has left me on a real back footing. I have neve had the fast cars and expensive dvds, days out and holidays. It has always been walks and bike rides. What I didnt realise until now was how much other people (peers) were spending on their lives. These days I hear about ppl going back to a more simple way of life but for me there has been no other way. I guess I have never had it so never missed it.

    So for me the recession and bough some kind of understanding.
    Debt free and plan on staying that way!!!!
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    I'm surprised - I always took you as someone who listened to 50 Cent or even Eminem.

    I like Eminem.

    You got a problem with that?
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    !!!!!!? wrote: »
    X-factor.
    Pop Idol.
    ... all that 'instant success' crud.

    .


    I am not saying current music is good but i am stuggling to think of any good "recession born" bands.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    any good "recession born" bands.

    The Clash !!!!
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    purch wrote: »
    The Crash !!!!


    They've not named a band after it now have they? Heavens..
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    I am not saying current music is good but i am stuggling to think of any good "recession born" bands.

    Arguably all of grunge/Madchester music was "recession born" - so my student days of Happy Daze type stuff - which was not half bad - probably counts.
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