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Post by Hey Man on Sept 13, 2011 23:40:58 GMT -5
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Post by Hey Man on Sept 23, 2011 11:44:19 GMT -5
I thought some of you vinyl die hards, would freak out at even the remote suggestion that you should put your albums in storage, because a woman is sick of looking at them. How wrong I was.
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Post by Hey Man on Sept 23, 2011 12:00:19 GMT -5
I uh, well, uhh, had to move my CD racks into our back room, just didn't look nice having the entire living room swimming with thousands of CDs.  I can see you are not the man in your relationship.  |
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Post by Hey Man on Sept 23, 2011 12:30:26 GMT -5
I can see you are not the man in your relationship. LOL, not by any stretch of the imagination! Have you thought about putting your foot down? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2011 13:04:08 GMT -5
Having a collection is fine but when it takes over the living room to the point that you look like you should be on an episode of hoarders then you might have a problem!
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Post by Hey Man on Jan 17, 2012 15:47:44 GMT -5
I am very thankful that my wife is equally as geeky as me and doesn't mind showing off our CD/DVD's proudly. Hell, she would turn our living room into a Lord Of The Rings shrine if I let her.
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Post by R&ROVER on Jan 17, 2012 15:55:19 GMT -5
Your lady is awesome just from the sounds of that alone.
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Post by Hey Man on Jan 17, 2012 15:59:44 GMT -5
Your lady is awesome just from the sounds of that alone. Thanks - she has Lord Of The Rings swords, staffs, helmets and all kinds of stuff. She thinks LOTR is the real trilogy though - not Star Wars. |
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Post by Wolfman on Jan 17, 2012 16:12:24 GMT -5
I need to show this to my BF he has so much drag stuff its starting to take up two rooms
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Post by Hey Man on Jan 17, 2012 16:22:48 GMT -5
I need to show this to my BF he has so much drag stuff its starting to take up two rooms Does it bother you? |
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Post by Wolfman on Jan 18, 2012 3:44:00 GMT -5
It bothers me that hes got so much of it that he never uses and its creeping out of the room that it should be and is getting all over the house. Those heads he sets the wigs on freak my out I feel like they are watching me.
I would like to be able to get in and out out of the dining room without tripping over bags shoes purses wigs WTC I would like to be able to have guests stay over without having to move the clothes and make up box and jewelry off the bed then check it when the guest leaves to make sure everything is there.
If he kept it in room it should be in then it would all be fine
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Post by lugnut on Jan 18, 2012 14:11:01 GMT -5
I've got the particular problem of having lots of stuff that isn't particularly pretty to store like LPs or CDs can be. I sold off most all of my LPs after losing half of them to water damage and sold off and/or put in storage all my CDs after losslessly ripping them a couple years ago. Now I've just got boxes and boxes of 45s, which I've got no intention of getting rid of anytime soon, but can't really be displayed in a way that it doesn't just look like a bunch of boxes. Even the ones with nice picture-sleeve artwork or cool company-logo sleeves seem hard to find a good way to display.
Of course, it's not a problem for now, but the girlfriend keeps insisting I move in with her when she gets a place, so I may have to deal with it soon... Pry 'em from my cold, dead hands she will.
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Post by Hey Man on Jan 5, 2015 18:29:18 GMT -5
Came across this article today that discusses the commercial. It's interesting how things have changed from 2007 to 2014.
Hype Sheet: Radio Shack is Wrong on So Many Levels.
The Pitch
"Penelope" is not a happy camper. Seems that she's had it up to here with her boyfriend's vinylphilia, and she appears to have issued an ultimatum in advance of her latest business trip: either the records go, or I do. How will the conflicted Romeo respond? Why, by magically using a couple of Radio Shack cables and a new laptop to digitize his entire LP collection—in, uh, three or four days (a generous estimate based on the size of Penelope's suitcase). The result? Our male protagonist is definitely gettin' some tonight, based on Penelope's winsome reaction to the booming iPod dock awaiting her return. "With our help at Radio Shack, you don't just buy stuff," the narrator declares during the outro. "You do stuff." Wait, is the Shack really trying to pitch itself as a customer-service mecca? And are their ad folks really that ignorant about analog-to-digital transferring? Why, yes—yes they are.
Rip-Off
Of the movie version of High Fidelity, though John Cusack's character had the good sense not to toss his vinyl for a woman's love—a tradeoff that can only end in tears. (I'll confess, though, that Penelope is a few degrees hotter than Iben Hjejle.)
The Spin
Radio Shack is trying to mimic Home Depot's strategy—that is, portraying itself as a project-solving center rather than just another off-the-shelf retailer. I guess they've come to realize that the cellphone game isn't the future, not least of all because wireless carriers' stores are eating their lunch. Hence the shift to helping you not only purchase electronic goods, but also figure out what combination of gadgets you need to accomplish specific tasks. And, hey, who better to help you out with a long list of irritating questions than a helpful Radio Shack salesman? Because we all know what a joy it is to ask a Shack employee something other than, "Can you please sign me up for the most overpriced cellphone contract possible?"
Counterspin
If you're going to market your expertise, it's advisable to demonstrate that expertise in your commercial, no? Yet the Shack totally botches this one, starting with the timing problem. Loverboy here has, at minimum, 2,000 records in his apartment. Assuming each record has an hour of music, that's 120,000 minutes of music he's gotta digitize, a task that would take him over 83 days of nonstop work. Doesn't look like his girlfriend is packed for a three-month trip, does it? On top of that, um, doesn't Radio Shack's solution (new laptop plus cables plus iPod dock) strike you as a wee bit 2004? What, they don't carry anything along the lines of these? Finally—and this really gets my goat—no self-respecting vinyl junkie stacks his LPs from floor-to-ceiling, as is shown in one of the ad's first frames. Though I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that the Shack doesn't keep it real.
Takeaway
These are trying times for Radio Shack, with Citigroup recently recommending that investors sell the company's stock. So you've got to applaud the Shack's brain trust for recognizing that stay-the-course isn't the best strategy right now. But, seriously, do they really want to emphasize the part of their business—customer service—that is notoriously abysmal? Perhaps if the current "Do Stuff" campaign was accompanied by a true reinvention of the Shack's approach to sales—say, by doing away with commissions, or not trying so hard to push cellphone plans above all else—then there'd be something there. But judging by my last few visits, that's simply not the case—Godspeed to anyone who tries to buy a heatsink at the Radio Shack on W. 125 Street in Manhattan. (Stock response to every heatsink question: "I have no idea.") Factor in the annoying technical ignorance and anti-analog bias of this commercial, and you've got a real clunker for the ages.
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Post by Hey Man on Feb 15, 2024 22:40:40 GMT -5
Seems more relevant today with the popularity of vinyl than in 2011 when I first posted this - despite the poor technology that Radio Shack was trying to sell at the time.
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Post by battra on Mar 8, 2024 20:11:13 GMT -5
When you see my posts, know this, I was sitting in my sitting room. We have a two family room lifestyle.
Got about 1400 LPs in this room.
right now? Spinning some Marxist Hip Hop by The Coup.
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Post by Steve on Mar 8, 2024 21:06:38 GMT -5
'The Girl', as you all know, is not an issue.
I keep all my music on an 8tb hard drive and I have Apple Music set up on my phone for when I'm away from home.
That being said, my audio setup is not all it could be. I'd like a standalone player that can connect to my amplifier, store all my albums locally *and* has its own Apple Music interface. Unfortunately no such device yet exists.
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Post by Hey Man on Mar 8, 2024 21:35:04 GMT -5
'The Girl', as you all know, is not an issue. I keep all my music on an 8tb hard drive and I have Apple Music set up on my phone for when I'm away from home. That being said, my audio setup is not all it could be. I'd like a standalone player that can connect to my amplifier, store all my albums locally *and* has its own Apple Music interface. Unfortunately no such device yet exists. Have you ever had music missing from your library, because licensing changed hands - so what you thought was yours forever isn't? You never really own anything. Unless you are talking only about your old CD's that you ripped. |
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Post by Steve on Mar 8, 2024 21:55:09 GMT -5
Unless you are talking only about your old CD's that you ripped. That's what I listen to whenever I'm home. My collection, my preferred masterings and no licensing problems. Apple Music is for when I'm out and about or in hospital and don't have access to my own library. |
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