#but then i got up and looked and was like oh shit sjfnjsj he's gorgeous and hot love slaps even though the lyrics make zero sense

[galadriiel]

this may sound snobbish or cheesy but idc i was just thinking about how lucky i was to get into sixties&seventies music before i really knew how to use the internet & youtube only had the odd concert recordings but never studio versions & i had to rely on my dad who was actually alive back then & went to a bunch of cool concerts & how exciting it was to get a new cd or book on a band i liked like that one time when i was getting into t. rex which basically meant watching the top of the pops recording of hot love a billion times on a loop, falling a little in love with marc and bothering my dad until he told me all about the time he saw them live & one day he came home from a day in town & i went out to greet him & i caught a flash of a yellow silhuette on a cd and just fucking screamed and hugged him for like ten minutes and my mum was just like ?? what's happening ?? and i was like it's electric warrior can't you see !!! and proceeded to spend the rest of the evening looking at the cover & the pictures in the booklet that goes with it and listening to the album over and over from start to finish & it's probably the closest i could have gotten to experiencing getting the album when it actually came out & i'm so glad i didn't even know services like spotify existed cos i may depend on it now but it's just not the same & i managed to get into most of the bigger bands i like the same way i did with t. rex & i'm so glad i did !! same w led zeppelin, we only had their first four albums & i didn't know jackshit about them apart from what again my dad told me & then he bought me a book on them & i was like holy shit they have more albums ??? & i went to hmv and spent all my pocket money on physical graffiti & presence & then later in through the out door and coda & i wouldn't have it any other way :') obviously now i enjoy how available everything is & being able to talk to people about music but back then it was just me, my dad, the odd concert recording on youtube, blurry images on fanpop & the records and the books & i'm so glad