Fifty Quid Guy

Looks like I’m part of a named demographic. According to The Guardian I’m “50 quid guy”.

On a hot day at County Hall in London, [David] Hepworth stood up and gave Britain’s record-company bosses a lecture about their own customers, concentrating on “the 50-quid guy”, a term he had picked up from friends in retail. “This is the guy we’ve all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book – fifty quid’s worth – and frantically computing how he’s going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment.”

And as for musical tastes:

He likes the White Stripes, Coldplay and Blur and has persevered with Radiohead through the difficult last three albums. His latest buys are the debut albums from the Stands, who remind him of the Byrds, and Franz Ferdinand, who remind him of the Glasgow art-school bands of 1982. The fact that most of the new bands sound old is a definite help.

“Melody Maker”