We got a new Television installed in our kitchen after the old one gave up the ghost. I'm glad to say it's working well after the half an hour inputing names, e-mail details, wi-fi code etc, ets. I miss the old days when you could simply just plug it in and turn it on.
Did any of you ever rent a telly? I did in the couple of years when I worked in Campbeltown.I think I paid something like £4 a week.
All the above had me flicking channels and tuning in for the following songs:
Talking Heads - Television Man
Excellent selection CC
ReplyDeleteGot a new tv after Christmas and I THINK I might have just got it fully set up.... think...
ReplyDeleteGreat song choices. Yes, my family rented a TV for a while, and a very good arrangement it was too - I think it was when the one we did own went wrong and was at the TV Repair Shop for a few weeks. Imagine that too - actually getting something *repaired* rather than replaced!
ReplyDeleteNo, I never rented a TV but a superb choice CC
ReplyDeleteMy family rented a TV throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. I vividly remember arriving home one day to find a colour set sitting in the corner of the living room, replacing the old black & white one - unbelievably exciting. Many years later I owned my own set, but rented my first VHS video recorder.
ReplyDelete4 really impeccable songs today CC, though of course I'm particularly biased towards Robyn.
We also rented and I can still remember in 1972 when the men came to take the TV back because we were moving overseas. It was half way through a cowboy film I was watching and I was very annoyed because I never got to see the ending.
DeleteI'm from Glasgow, so of course I'm from a family who rented a television back in the day! My own first telly, when I moved out of the family home in the early 80s and into a student flat was a 12" B&W portable, but as it was a parting gift from my folks, I actually owned the thing!
ReplyDeleteDecent tunes today, but I'd love to have seen 'Television, The Drug of the Nation' by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy which carries as powerful a message today as it did in 1992.
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WE rented through the 70s and 80s. My parents I'm pretty sure were still renting in the 90s until it was pointed out that TVs were relatively cheap and they could have bought several with the money they'd paid renting.
ReplyDeleteI kind of miss seeing Radio Rentals on the High Street. In other news, 'Marquee Moon' is a tremendous record. Swc.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Mark E. Moon are a synthpop post-punk band based on the Isle of Man? And yes, the Medds were all over Radio Rentals. Men in white coats with pens & screwdrivers in their top pockets taking all day to tune ITV into Anglia/Yorkshire/ATV - perm any two from three.
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Radio Rentals Ruled!
ReplyDeleteIn Glasgow in was Glens,Hutchison, Robertson and Stepek!
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