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Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	The nu grunge-goth kids posted on: 4/18/2004 11:47:41 AM In and around Paradise Forum on a Saturday lunchtime is where you'll find them - hordes of freaky-looking, black-clad young teenagers, sporting face-paint and piercings. Marilyn Manson seems to be a major source of inspiration with regard to their sartorial style, which also features ridiculously huge platform boots and black, rubber-spiked backpacks. One wonders if they all go to school looking like this, and I can imagine that as isolated individuals during the week they probably get seriously bullied. Come Saturday, however, they can all rally together and parade their alienated outsider individuality en masse. Seeing them makes me think back to when I was their age, spending Saturday afternoons clad in flared jeans and a pachouli-scented velvet jacket, listening to prog rock at the original Virgin Records shop on Corporation Street by the Law Courts. It was a really titchy little place, run by a couple of long-haired hippy types in the days just before Tubular Bells launched Branson on his path to entrepreneurial superstardom. Anyone else remember it?
NH349ARIEL	The nu grunge-goth kids replied on: 4/18/2004 10:22:09 PM Indeed I do. They had aircraft seats where you could listen to music on headphones. It was also a great place to get ripped off with cat nip instead of weed.
racheymaus old hand Rank: Chinny	The nu grunge-goth kids replied on: 4/19/2004 7:13:37 PM This is worrying me coz I do remember it, but that would make my birth certificate lying. And I remember it being in Bull Street. But I couldn't've been there, so I might as well remember it being on Venus, really. Did this establishment exist circa 1981?
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	The nu grunge-goth kids replied on: 4/20/2004 12:32:23 AM quote: This is worrying me coz I do remember it, but that would make my birth certificate lying. And I remember it being in Bull Street. But I couldn't've been there, so I might as well remember it being on Venus, really. Did this establishment exist circa 1981? Upper Bull Street was where it was located for a while in its transistion stage from mini- to mega-store. The original shop by the Law Courts was not much bigger than a broom cupboard, and, as Ariel says, featured a row of airline seats - like some spooky totemic premonition of Virgin's future expansion. BTW, it wasn't all prog rock horror. It was also the place where I heard the likes of Frank Zappa, Miles Davis and even Karlheinz Stockhausen for the very first time.
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