{"id":14687,"date":"2024-06-03T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/wax-heads-the-record-shop-video-game-that-channels-high-fidelity\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T08:37:58","slug":"wax-heads-the-record-shop-video-game-that-channels-high-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/wax-heads-the-record-shop-video-game-that-channels-high-fidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wax Heads, the record-shop video game that channels High Fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from a business sim, players act as tastemaker for a litany of lovable oddballs that swing by, using clues to deduce the perfect album recommendation<\/p>\n<p>Every time I go through a breakup, I\u2019m compelled to rewatch the noughties classic High Fidelity, in which OG softboi John Cusack mournfully chronicles a \u201ctop 10 list\u201d of his all-time worst breakups, soundtracked by the albums that accompanied them.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than his parade of enthralling exes, including a wonderfully vapid Catherine Zeta-Jones, it\u2019s Cusack\u2019s record shop, Championship Vinyl, that\u2019s the film\u2019s star. A sanctuary for a hurting Cusack, this battered boutique becomes a refuge for Chicago\u2019s other lost souls, giving its perennially hungover proprietor and a gaggle of local music nerds a place to lick their wounds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/wax-heads-the-record-shop-video-game-that-channels-high-fidelity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/375995cd36cb5fdff8da38bc877c82b749af0675\/69_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e5455ebd37f0219235bf3802f3e66af\" title=\"Wax Heads, the record-shop video game that channels High Fidelity\" \/>Far from a business sim, players act as tastemaker for a litany of lovable oddballs that swing by, using clues to deduce the perfect album recommendation<br \/>\nEvery time I go through a breakup, I\u2019m compelled to rewatch the noughties classic High Fidelity, in which OG softboi John Cusack mournfully chronicles a \u201ctop 10 list\u201d of his all-time worst breakups, soundtracked by the albums that accompanied them.<br \/>\nRather than his parade of enthralling exes, including a wonderfully vapid Catherine Zeta-Jones, it\u2019s Cusack\u2019s record shop, Championship Vinyl, that\u2019s the film\u2019s star. A sanctuary for a hurting Cusack, this battered boutique becomes a refuge for Chicago\u2019s other lost souls, giving its perennially hungover proprietor and a gaggle of local music nerds a place to lick their wounds. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from a business sim, players act as tastemaker for a litany of lovable oddballs that swing by, using clues to deduce the perfect album recommendation Every time I go through a breakup, I\u2019m compelled to rewatch the noughties classic High Fidelity, in which OG softboi John Cusack mournfully chronicles a \u201ctop 10 list\u201d of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/wax-heads-the-record-shop-video-game-that-channels-high-fidelity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wax Heads, the record-shop video game that channels High Fidelity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}