I was in a pub the other day and in the corner there was a guy playing records. He wasn't mixing, or scratching, or sampling or anything. No, the bar was paying him to chose songs and play them before lining up another song to play. Weird. Wasn't there a labour saving device invented 60 odd years ago to do that for you? Better still, this 'juke box' would actually make the pub money. There was no advantages to this guy. You couldn't even make a selection on him. You couldn't put coins into his mouth or hit him on the side of the head when he made the wrong choice.
Isn't there a point when reverting to previous systems for the sake of style become pointless? Strangely, next to the man playing records, there was a cigarette machine. Not a guy standing there selling over-priced cigarettes. Inconsistent!
I guess if they wanted to add a gambling element, they could have a guy behind a green table holding fruit. "Lemon...lemon...grapes...ahhhh, too bad."
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