Best Buy Employee Bashing
By Eric | June 29, 2004 10:05 pm
So yeah, about that wonderful help at Best Buy yesterday. Two kids that look like the Abercrombie models from the MadTV spoof come up to me as I’m perusing the “T” section looking for the new Tragically Hip CD, which I kinda had a hunch that they wouldn’t have. Notice how the one kid just assumes that because its new, and I’m shopping on a Monday, that I’m a retard and the CD isn’t released till tomorrow…
Kid 1: “What can I help you find?”
Me: “The new Tragically Hip album”
Kid 1: “It comes out tomorrow.”
Me: “It came out on the 22nd as far as I know, did it get pushed back?”
Kid 1: *checks his little sheet* “Uhhhhhhhh…. yo, do we have the new Tra… what are they called again?”
Me: “The Tragically Hip”
Kid 2: “They’re Canadian.” *way to go dumbass!*
Me: “Yeah, it came out last week, do you have it or no?”
Kid 2: “Um, it doesn’t look like we have any, if we don’t have their older stuff, I doubt we’re gonna start picking them up now.”
Me: “Yep. I’ll go to Record Archive instead.”
Morons. My pet peeve about the whole thing is not that he hadn’t heard of them, I didn’t expect him to… but automatically assuming that I’m in on a Monday, and if I can’t find it, it must come out tomorrow (Tuesday is the traditional day for new music and movie releases). Grr.
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06/27/2004 Lucky Boys Confusion, RX Bandits, Big D and the Kids Table, The Budgets (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | June 27, 2004 11:59 pm
This was a date on the Reel Big Fish Coast to Coast tour, whom we ultimately ended up not staying for. Since Tiff is the big Lucky Boys fan, we stood in line only to be crammed into the smaller side of Water Street to watch The Budgets play first. Usual punk fare, they weren’t awful, but they weren’t great. It’s really not my thing, so my opinion doesn’t count for much. Then everyone piled into the other, larger side of Water Street, and after securing a barrier spot, it was LBC time. They ran through a 35 minute set, playing Hey Driver, Saturday Night, Medicine & Gasoline, City Lights, Blame, Sunday Afternoon, 40/80, and then an obscure 80’s cover of a Dramarama song called “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)”. I had never heard it before, but they did a pretty rockin version of it. After their set, we made our way back to the merch booth, and Tiff got autographs from the guys in the band, and we wandered over to the other side to check out Big D and the Kids Table, a ska band that had tons of energy, and what seemed like a decent fanbase. Entertaining to say the least! Back on the main stage, we stuck around for the RX Bandits, and while they had a ton of fans, I was less than impressed. They almost seemed like a punky jam band. Very odd, but not very musically redeeming. Eh, whatever. Tiff and I got tired and packed it in early, having already seen who we wanted to see. Tiff managed to score a Lucky Boys setlist, and the scan is below.
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06/10/2004 Fuel, Seven Day Faith (Buffalo, NY @ Lafeytte Square)
By Eric | June 10, 2004 11:59 pm
The first Thursday in the Square show I’ve been to in awhile. Tiff and I got there about 7, just as Seven Day Faith was finishing up. Stood around until about a quarter to 8, when Fuel finally took to the stage. Thankfully it wasn’t too hot, wasn’t too cold, the weather was just right for an outdoor show 🙂 They opened up with Quarter, then right into Jesus or a Gun. Continuing the harder stuff, Won’t Back Down was next, then Shimmer got the place into a frenzy. Speaking of frenzies, free shows coupled with beer always draw a lot of interesting people to shows, and this was no exception. Lotsa kids, and just-past-kids that wanted to mosh and crowdsurf, and that’s exactly what they did. Next up was Scar, and while Brett sounded great up until this point, the next song, Untitled, he really sounded like he was straining to hit some of the notes. Fortunately, this was the only song that sounded like that, as the rest of the show both before and after were excellent… Million Miles, Down Inside Of You, and Sunburn came next, all with the trademark Carl Bell guitar riffing. Another huge crowd singalong for Falls on Me, and then the crowd went bezerk during Down, all the moshers had a field day. Continuing the hard stuff, Fuel played Empty Spaces and Prove, before closing the main set with Hemorrhage. Back out for the encore, first was Bittersweet, and the closer closer was Last Time. Lotsa energy, lotsa fun, and to cap it all off, there was a hell of a fight at the end of the show in the crowd. Not too bad for free!
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