supergiant age

Chapter 184 "Nowhere to Ashamed"

"The record business is down!"

This exclamation may have long been commonplace for the general public.

The decline of the recording industry is not only the rows of new CDs that have not been opened on the record shelves of large bookstores; it is also the closure of small video stores.

What was once a booming record business a few years ago has now become free downloads that stream freely on smartphones.

Listening to music through the Internet has gradually become the mainstream way for consumers, especially young consumers.

So the only remaining video store in this small town is very precious.

The shop owner's surname is Yuan, and people who know him call him Lao Yuan.He is roughly in his sixties, gentle and elegant.

His family is not short of money, his wife leaves early, and his children are away all year round. This small audio-visual store has become his sustenance. What he has to do every day is to wipe the dusty CDs on the shelves.

Today, as usual, Lao Yuan opened the store early and unpacked a new album that he just received last night.

On the cover, he is very familiar with the person holding the guitar and shouting with his head up against the black background. It is Chu Xinghe who sang "Hot Life".

This is one of his favorite rock singers, and he loves his rock.

Just like the song "Hot Life": the symbol that you don't want to but you have to bear; the collision between personal ideals and reality; the choice between love and freedom. Just run as hard as you can.

He took a look at the four heavy characters on the black background of the album like a shimmering light: shameless!
And what surprises will this album, which is slightly heavy in terms of cover and name, bring to him?

He carefully took out the CD, put it into an old-fashioned CD player, and played it through the external device.

The dynamic electric guitar sounded, followed by Chu Xinghe's recognizable treble.

"In the crowd, there are you and me
Meet each other and think about each other
You are me in the crowd

Pretending to be decent and smiling..."

The high-pitched, angry singing voice of the golden age rock music almost caused Lao Yuan's heart to stop suddenly as soon as he opened his mouth, and then it boiled like being thrown into a hot pot.

The restless pleasure gushing out of the blood made him almost want to sing along.

Chu Xinghe's free and unrestrained voice seemed to be able to penetrate everything, pulling him into that restless and wild world all at once.

This song "No Place to Shame" is a classic rock song by Black Panther, which occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese rock and roll.

The rock and roll feeling it brings to people is stronger, more violent, and brighter, and the lyrics are like a rock-hard fist.
"You don't have to say too much that you know

What do you and I want to do?

Don't care a lot, don't have to be sad

One day you will leave me..."

Listening to such classic rock music, Lao Yuan, who is a veteran of music, wants to jump up and sing along with Chu Xinghe!

And the people outside the video store also stopped their hasty steps, and stopped to listen to this roar that was enough to make blood boil.

It's different from those rocks that hit the ear with a fast tempo and have little connotation.

This song burns your ears and breaks your soul with a kind of sincere anger and blood from the heart.

This kind of tone that pointed directly at people's hearts made people unconsciously want to tremble.

Among the people who stopped by, Wu Xing was the one who felt the deepest.

For him in his thirties, listening to such songs is like being hit by a heavy hammer in the heart, unable to move.

When he first heard it, he only felt that the melody of this song was dynamic and the singing voice was high-pitched and pleasant.

But when he listened carefully, there was an indescribable sadness in his heart. The more wounds the years left on him, the longer the road he traveled, the thicker the precipitation in his heart, the more he could understand the deep meaning behind the lyrics .

This song not only expresses the love between men and women, but more deeply, it expresses the anger and unyielding towards the indifference, hypocrisy, and lack of trust between people in this era of society.

He empathizes with the song and lets out his feelings and anger while listening to it, which is part of the charm of the song.

"Don't remember anymore, remember what the past

Not the me I used to be
don't believe it anymore

i no longer believe

Don't remember anymore, remember what the past

Not the me I used to be
HI YE HI YE”

The song has ended unconsciously, but the emotion in the song has not left in his heart for a long time.

He took a look at this somewhat dilapidated small shop, and then stepped firmly into it.

Back then, a bowl of noodles was two yuan, and I was reluctant to eat it, but bought a five-yuan cassette.Now a bowl of noodles is 25, but I can't find a song that I am willing to spend a few cents to download.It's not that he doesn't want money, it's that the current songs are not worth it.

And now, just relying on this song is enough for him to cherish this album forever.

And he was not the only one who stepped into this video store together. When Lao Yuan came back to his senses, he was surrounded by several people.

"Boss, is this song from Chu Xinghe's new album?"

"Old Yuan, what's the name of this song, I'll go back and download it."

"Boss, give me an album of this chapter, this song alone is enough for my collection."

"Boss, give me one too!"

……

Everyone was talking urgently, and more and more people asked to buy the album.

Apart from Chu Xinghe's fans, the song "Shame on You" also attracted many customers.

Their biggest willingness to buy this album is that they think it is worth collecting.

Such a grand event has almost never happened to Lao Yuan's small shop in the past two years.

The albums were handed out one by one, and his week-long stock was sold out in just two hours.

In the end, there was only one album that was playing in the CD player, and the number of people in line was slowly increasing.

"I'm sorry everyone, the album is sold out! I'll arrange to buy it immediately, and it will arrive tomorrow. I'm really sorry." Lao Yuan had no choice but to shout loudly.

He never thought that when the album was still such a hit, the albums he entered before were not the bottom of the box.

This time because it was Chu Xinghe's album, he had bought twenty more copies, but he did not expect that they would be sold out in such a short period of time.

"What's going on, it's almost my turn."

"What kind of store do you open with only a few albums in?"

"Boss, don't you still have one on display? Sell it to me, and I will pay double the price!"

"Boss, sell me, sell me, I'll pay three times!"

……

There was a lot of shouting in the store, and the scene seemed to return to the heyday of records ten years ago.

And such scenes don't just happen in this small town.

The few video stores left in China are full of people, as if such an industry that is on the verge of being eliminated seems to be full of vitality again.

(End of this chapter)