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a few months ago while traveling cross country i somehow ended up in a goodwill store in hays kansas, for you out there who don't much about hays, hays kansas is a city in the middle of kansas, a little more west than east. while in this goodwill i came across a shopping cart full of albums, being this was a goodwill store and in the middle of kansas, i figured it would be fun to see what some one had gotten rid of, after all there were people dressed in overalls and cowboys hats shopping in the store (kansas is no joke) . after looking for a bit i ended up walking out of that goodwill store will three albums, three albums i would have never imagined i would find in the middle of kansas.
talking heads- remain in light
jimi hendrix- are you experienced
frank zappa- freak out!
for anyone who knows these albums, you know how good they are. anyways so while driving down that long kansas highway in the middle of that hot barren land i tried to think of who might have owned these albums, who in the middle of kansas could have possibly been listening to frank zappa? time passed...
yesterday while driving in my cart listening to that jimi hendrix album i had gotten a few months before i started thinking about it again... who could have possibly owned those albums in the middle of kansas (this is seriously the middle of no where), and how did i coming from ny probably at least 1500 miles away from home in the middle of nowhere turn off the highway and stumble upon this shopping car.
my first guess was that the owner of these albums was an older man, somewhere in his 50's who had gotten sick and sadly died somewhere over the years, and while going through his things, his family had decided to give away his cds figuring they were of all his things the least sentimental. so then that would mean that i own a dead kansan's music? that seems pretty creepy, while hes wasting away in some kansas grave i'm driving in my car on the otherside of the country blasting his jimi hendrix.
my second guess as to the owner of these unusual albums in kansas was some teenager who had grown up all his life in kansas, and who had grown up on rock and roll as it was the only alternative to country (i like country) and somehow got into the talking heads and frank zappa somewhere in his youth as it was his only escape from his family's collection of country western records. but now this teenager had gotten a little older, and the phenomenon known as rap had made its way to the middle of kansas and into this kids living room, and now he or she realized that rock and wasn't his only exscape from hank williams but that gangster rap was a cool new thing that he could listen loud in his pick up while driving into town to run some errands. now this kid from the middle of nowhere kansas who had grown up on susie cream cheese and foxy lady was now more interested in 50 cent and no longer cared about these older dirty bags from his younger days. the world of mtv had gotten another one, another one in the middle of kansas bit the dust. maybe 50 cent wasn't his thing, no maybe it was my chemical romance or thursday or something like that, maybe he had gotten into pop punk and now no longer needed these old rock albums to fulfill his late post 12th grade kansas highschool afternoons anymore.
my final guess was that these albums in fact belonged to a teenager who had grown up in the middle of kansas all his life and who had seen the option of country and rock and who did infact fall into being a fan of rock and roll and who did eventually amass a decent collection of albums over his teenager years and who was the only person in his school who knew who frank zappa was. YES! this is the boy or girl who did in fact own these albums and who rocked out to them in their bedroom while no one else was looking! but......then they decided to get rid of them? why? because they had discovered some other bands who weren't like the ones they had heard before, becuase this teenage girl or boy had recently gotten into the sex pistols and the germs and the ramones (its possible!) and although appreciated these albums, had known them through and through and needed some extra cash for that minor threat ep and they weren't listening to their old albums anymore and saw it as an opportunity to spread their albums with whoever else was driving down the road one day and who decided to stop in at the goodwill in good old hays kansas to see what they could find.
who knows who owned these albums before me, who the hell in the middle of kansas was listening to frank zappa! i want to meet them. i don't know...but freak out! was the first frank zappa album i'd ever heard...so if my assumptions have any truth, that person who decided to leave their albums in the hope of starting up some one elses interest in them worked after all. ...and it took me to go to kansas to get into frank zappa.
talking heads- remain in light
jimi hendrix- are you experienced
frank zappa- freak out!
for anyone who knows these albums, you know how good they are. anyways so while driving down that long kansas highway in the middle of that hot barren land i tried to think of who might have owned these albums, who in the middle of kansas could have possibly been listening to frank zappa? time passed...
yesterday while driving in my cart listening to that jimi hendrix album i had gotten a few months before i started thinking about it again... who could have possibly owned those albums in the middle of kansas (this is seriously the middle of no where), and how did i coming from ny probably at least 1500 miles away from home in the middle of nowhere turn off the highway and stumble upon this shopping car.
my first guess was that the owner of these albums was an older man, somewhere in his 50's who had gotten sick and sadly died somewhere over the years, and while going through his things, his family had decided to give away his cds figuring they were of all his things the least sentimental. so then that would mean that i own a dead kansan's music? that seems pretty creepy, while hes wasting away in some kansas grave i'm driving in my car on the otherside of the country blasting his jimi hendrix.
my second guess as to the owner of these unusual albums in kansas was some teenager who had grown up all his life in kansas, and who had grown up on rock and roll as it was the only alternative to country (i like country) and somehow got into the talking heads and frank zappa somewhere in his youth as it was his only escape from his family's collection of country western records. but now this teenager had gotten a little older, and the phenomenon known as rap had made its way to the middle of kansas and into this kids living room, and now he or she realized that rock and wasn't his only exscape from hank williams but that gangster rap was a cool new thing that he could listen loud in his pick up while driving into town to run some errands. now this kid from the middle of nowhere kansas who had grown up on susie cream cheese and foxy lady was now more interested in 50 cent and no longer cared about these older dirty bags from his younger days. the world of mtv had gotten another one, another one in the middle of kansas bit the dust. maybe 50 cent wasn't his thing, no maybe it was my chemical romance or thursday or something like that, maybe he had gotten into pop punk and now no longer needed these old rock albums to fulfill his late post 12th grade kansas highschool afternoons anymore.
my final guess was that these albums in fact belonged to a teenager who had grown up in the middle of kansas all his life and who had seen the option of country and rock and who did infact fall into being a fan of rock and roll and who did eventually amass a decent collection of albums over his teenager years and who was the only person in his school who knew who frank zappa was. YES! this is the boy or girl who did in fact own these albums and who rocked out to them in their bedroom while no one else was looking! but......then they decided to get rid of them? why? because they had discovered some other bands who weren't like the ones they had heard before, becuase this teenage girl or boy had recently gotten into the sex pistols and the germs and the ramones (its possible!) and although appreciated these albums, had known them through and through and needed some extra cash for that minor threat ep and they weren't listening to their old albums anymore and saw it as an opportunity to spread their albums with whoever else was driving down the road one day and who decided to stop in at the goodwill in good old hays kansas to see what they could find.
who knows who owned these albums before me, who the hell in the middle of kansas was listening to frank zappa! i want to meet them. i don't know...but freak out! was the first frank zappa album i'd ever heard...so if my assumptions have any truth, that person who decided to leave their albums in the hope of starting up some one elses interest in them worked after all. ...and it took me to go to kansas to get into frank zappa.