Stereo demons

Some evil thing has invaded my stereo and made it so that no matter which way you turn the volume knob, the volume just gets lower and lower. It's evil, I say!!! And I have the stereo on ALL THE TIME!!! I can still use the remote to turn it up, but what happens if I lose that???

So I reached out and touched someone for help and the nice folks at aiwa told me to unplug it for 24 hours, to hopefully reset the internal thingamajiggy to factory standard. This actually seems likely to work, given that I first noticed this issue after we had 5 consecutive power surges/outages/whatevers. Rat Bastard Goat Demons!!!!!!

I must think happy thoughts. The stereo will be okay.

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Okay, scenario and question for y'all. So I buy cd imports (from NZ and AU mostly) and this one company emails me whenever they have something new I might want. And I usually do want what they're offering. My roommate pointed out that that kind of email is usually considered spam, but given that I do actually want the stuff, is it really spam? Do other people get offers like that that they actually want? Or is my music addiction just a bit overdeveloped?

In related news, I'll be getting a new cd from NZ sometimes soon. heh.