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To be wasted is to be left on the shelf. And now, we are all just browsing ghosts, scrolling endlessly, with nothing in our hands. The dog is gone. The music stopped. And the only thing left to waste is the memory.

The Ghost in the Aisles

For a teenager in the 90s and 2000s, HMV was the secular church. You didn’t buy; you browsed . You pulled out the headphones on the listening post, scrolled through thirty seconds of a B-side, and pretended you were a DJ on Radio 1. You read the entire lyric booklet of an album you had no intention of purchasing. You judged strangers by the stack of CDs in their hand. ( Nickelback? Get out. ) wasted hmv