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🗓️ 30 September 2021
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Scanning magazines, trapping animals, getting your cat kidnapped by The Wailers, and Grace Jones hands over her knickers. (Rec: 31/12/20)
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0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
0:51.0 | And there's absolutely no adverts or brief but annoying messages like this that will get right on your tics. |
1:21.0 | We are approaching the very end of the book, The Best of Roy, The Rovers, the 1980s. |
1:28.0 | After that we move on to the issues that came out subsequently if you can get your hands on copies of them. |
1:34.0 | Good luck with that. We might actually be able to just scan and put them on our website. |
1:40.0 | Yeah, because I'm going to be scanning them sent to you anyway, so we can always put them there. |
1:44.0 | Yeah, there's some great websites like that. I did an article in the independent like, |
1:50.0 | ah, fucking quite a few years ago now about how there were like magazine archivists who just had set up word presses |
1:59.0 | where they just painstakingly scanned in their collection of magazines from when they were young. |
2:05.0 | So someone had done it with smash hits, someone had done it. |
2:08.0 | There was 90s ones where someone had done select, remember that? That was a good match. |
2:13.0 | Oh, really? Yeah, and someone else had done melody makers. |
2:17.0 | And I interviewed them all, but just about, you know, what drove them to do it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
2:23.0 | So it's a thing. It is a thing. And I sort of think of it as if people can be bothered doing it to service. |
2:29.0 | I don't know what the copyright issues are, but to be honest, most publishers are useless on this stuff. They're like... |
2:37.0 | You know, they've got... I think about these publishers, these magazine publishers, right? They've all crumbled now because the print business is gone. |
2:45.0 | But they've got fucking archives of original IP, like ideas, amazing fucking things. |
2:53.0 | I mean, we've talked loads about our love of magazines and comics, right? |
2:57.0 | And it can be reused in a million and one different fucking ways. But they're like, |
3:03.0 | no one's buying magazines anymore. Oh, well. Let's shut up shop. |
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