The internet has ruined music buying :(

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Not often I have much negative to say about the intermerweb but it has definately mucked up this experience for me. The only music shop left in my home town is HMV and they don't have all the new releases. MVC is gone, not that it was much cop anyway, WHSmith has nothing Woolworths the same, there isn't one independant music retailer.

I go in HMV and they don't have a new release I want and I find myself scratching my head thinking there isn't ANYWHERE left, no choice nothing.

Don't get me wrong I love the net for shopping but sometimes you either want to browse or you want something there and then :(

MB
 
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Carzy said:
Plenty of music shops where I am. Fopp is the best
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I go to Fopp all the time too, in fact, I've been down there this lunchtime as its about 5 mins walk from work. Had to resist buying stuff though :(
 
^ i agree with MB on this one.

in fareham at one point we had an MVC and an Our price. the our price went ages ago obviously, then about a month ago the MVC went too. so now in fareham we dont have any music shops at all!

in pompey, half an hour down the road where i live at the moment, there is still an HMV and a Virgin, so i can still browse there.

there used to be a Tower Records near me, but i'm not sure if that just left or they sold up, but they had the biggest singles section of any store i had gone in, i used to often go there and just look through the old singles and vinyl that they had on offer, just because browsing through them was fun to do, and sometimes you'd get a surprise.

now i'm forced to look online to buy any music stuff, and whilst its cheap, its sometimes boring!
 
Competition has forced the smaller players out. CDs used to cost £15 for an album, with the retailer taking the lions share of the revenue, which would be around £5-6. Various online internet retailers sprung up, with low operating costs able to shave off 17.5% for a start because they were operating where VAT was not applicable (the place in Jersey). Tescos etc have moved to compete where the smaller stores are just not able to.

It's hard to say what we can do... :/
 
My home town of Chesterfield used to have an Our Price which closed down ages ago, then we got and MVC which has now gone and just recenlt we got an HMV. We've been fortunate enough to always have an independant record shop called Hudson though which I guess most towns don't. But like Daz says, I guess you can't really have it both ways. Cheap CDs and brick and mortar shops.
 
cleanbluesky said:
And what proof do you have that the internet is solely responsible?

"Home taping is killing music" eh?
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The internet has made it possible for a tiny shop with low overheads to sell to millions of people worldwide for much less than conventional stores.
 
We've got a big HMV, a big Virgin and a biggish MVC in the town centre, and in Leigh (my bit of Southend) an indie shop called Fives which I quite like, with another branch a few miles away in Rayleigh, and another independent called Oriel's who'll order me in pretty much anything. He's a good feller in there :)

Quite decent for music, this town.
 
cant say i've really seen this but my only real experience is of cambridge and manchester, both adorned with students and very large music scenes
it's very rare that i'll buy a new release, but would generally get it on day of release from hmv if i do
 
Abraham said:
cant say i've really seen this but my only real experience is of cambridge and manchester, both adorned with students and very large music scenes
it's very rare that i'll buy a new release, but would generally get it on day of release from hmv if i do
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Theres more music shops in Manchester than any other kind of shop, I'm sure of it :p 2 HMVs on Market Street?! Why?!
 
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