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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5711584" data-attributes="member: 83805">These days I don't really buy a lot of music stuff anymore, largely due to a loss of interest over the years.The last time I use to spend a lot of money on music, was before I started playing D&D again.  (I took a 15+ year hiatus from rpg games altogether, where I completely missed 2E AD&D and 3E D&D.  I came back to rpg games shortly after 3.5E was released).  By then, I more or less replaced most of my record collection with the cd versions.I stopped buying new musical equipment altogether around 20 years ago.  I have no interest anymore in playing in a band, nor writing my own new music.  Sometimes I'll still play the guitar when I'm bored.  Mostly silly guitar soloing stuff and sometimes transcribing songs.  (A few weeks ago I was attempting to transcribe the keyboard parts from Journey's "Separate Ways" on the guitar).Over the last year or so, I was spending a lot of cash on dvds of movies and tv shows I use to watch when I was younger.  A lot of it was mostly scavenging through the bargain bins at places like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, grocery stores, etc ...  It seems like a lot of stuff that was released several years ago, are now being dumped into the bargain bins for $5 (or less) per dvd or $15-$20 (or less) per tv show dvd set.  Though at this point, there isn't a whole lot left anymore which interests me (along with cutbacks at work which has significantly curtailed my spending).  Lately I was watching dvd sets of tv shows like Magnum PI, The A-Team, MacGyver, The Incredible Hulk, Blue Thunder, Miami Vice, etc ...I've slowly come to the realization that nostalgia for stuff from one's youth, isn't quite what it's made out to be.  But I suppose going through an extended mid-life crisis, it's easy to fall into a pattern of searching for nostalgic feelings from one's youth.</blockquote>

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