13/07/2026
/ / / ALWAYS OPEN NEWSLETTER #80 / / /
ATTENTION SHOPPERS
Please finalise your purchases and collect your decaying lay-bys: Always Open closes for good this Friday.
Join us for one last stroll through the aisles as fragments of designated shopping periods pass sift through our speakers. Recordings of our in-store muzak may linger on the PBS website and app - but like the best linkrotted vaporwave, they shall slowly dissolve into the background noise of the internet.
It has been an absolute pleasure serving you vaporous delights over the past 3 years. My thanks go out to those who have sent music in for consideration. There's too many to name, but I heartily encourage you to keep making and sharing your art - the world deserves to experience it.
Always Open may return in other formats over the coming years - a live pop up shop here, a one-off return to the radiowaves there. For now, I'll linger behind my customer service counter, awaiting a tide of shoppers that may never materialise, and never stop listening to the uncanny unreality of vaporwave.
Yours in consumption,
Benjamin Chesler, Senior Sales Representative
PS: Could the owner of a fluorescent pink kei car please make their way to the customer service counter? Its headlights are on, its engine is still running, and it's undergoing mitosis in aisle 46.
