I appreciate that its different from my paradigm and references and am cool with that, as you say, as it should be, each gen needs their own cool-shit.
I’m less sure how, if and whether its important that a bunch of rich-kids with their own cool in-crowd then leads onto anything else, but these things are hard to predict, especially when you’re stood back as far as I clearly am, and coupled with a pessimistic outlook.
Yes, time will tell of this is fad fashion or something more meaningful? It tends to be the ‘first adopters that’ either start a ‘thing’ which filters down or it fizzles out - Current indications (Over the last 4-5 years) are pointing towards a ground swell rather than a blip with more people piling in on a new wave.
I wouldn’t bother with any business which has a chain of shops.
They will all want somethng they can do in all their shops and will not have the systems in place for something in one shop, Anything that requires a till change will involve IT. Who does the risk assessment?
The list is endless.
You would be better off with an independent shop with an invested owner who can make decisions.
Agree, Chains will either say no due to ‘brand’ / business model / market position / clientele / costs etc or steal your concept.
James Catchpole in Tokyo Jazz Joints refers to a “third space” that is neither work nor family; a space between the two where an individual can express parts of their self that are hidden or unused.
A listening cafe would be such a place. The individualist non-homogeneity would be part of the charm.
Japanman sometimes overcompensates for his compliance to the social norms by cramming huge horns into tight spaces and drinking Saki with friends
Zackly. More necessary now than ever as work in the digital age becomes more and more horrible.
This thread smells of old audiophiles and desperation.
Hahha true we are on a ‘forum’, a totally outdated platform in the eyes of most 20-30 somethings. Maybe they will become cool again … err no wait.
I should have just set up a Discord server and had done with it
I thought serving up discord was the main point of this fetid corner of the interwebs…
Lol
Decamping this home for the bewildered may cause ‘change’ distress.
Even that caused quite a bit of distress.
Quite amusing to see several of this forum’s most conspicuous Mid-life Crisonauts chaffing-on about how old everyone else is 
I’ve been over zealous in highlighting a potentially uncomfortable observation of reality. I certainly did not intend to cause offense, or pose as something other than past it. Denial is exhausting. I’m old and irrelevant to the ‘New Breed’ and personally past my sell by date for cool. (Garrards however are seemingly not.)
In many ways that’s a relief, being part of a forum that doesn’t give tuppence for the rigors of cool (A cruel demanding and ultimately image thin mistress) preferring a somewhat more sedate / grumbling gluttonous existence.
Perhaps that is the way of things? The old boys scorn the new and deny they might have got it right?
Wasn’t actually you I had in mind
The way contemporary culture puts Youth on a pedestal while simultansoulsy making life for young people almost untenable does fill me with rage and despair though, that much is true…
I recognise @MGOwner on the left, but who is the bloke on the right?
Our collective conscious?
His jolly alter ego?
