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Subject: Death of the music shop
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wildhart 6.08.13 - 07:53am
With the rise of I Tunes and Onlne stores such as Amazon and all the illegal downloads etc the music shop has become an endangered species. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Its certainly cheaper now, CD's at stores like HMV have been over priced for years. But is having a digital download as good as having the physical vinyl or CD? Thoughts? * +

wildhart 6.08.13 - 07:57am
Personaly I hate it, I used to love going shopping for music, browsing the CD's and taking a punt on some band I'd never heard of before. Doing the same online is nowhere near as gratifying. And ultimately for me, just having the Download isnt enough, I want to have the physical CD or Vinyl not just a download on my Ipod * +

suvetar 6.08.13 - 01:34pm
I get the real cds too. I miss shopping for cds that way too, but in a way it is the industries fault. It can also be looked at as a positive. * +

suvetar 6.08.13 - 01:37pm
Now a lot of bands are selling their own cds online and have become closer too their fans * +

suges 6.08.13 - 04:40pm
Don't think it's 'bad' or 'good', just what comes with the evolution towards a paperless society. Just like how newspapers dying out and people are moving to online articles and news apps, but there will always be people that prefer a hard copy. It has its place but is becoming an old means of distributing music. Not to mention that the CD itself is becoming obsolete. A few weeks ago Sony and Panasonic teamed up to develop a next-gen optical disc standard. Might be interesting to see what the result will be. * +

leonking 6.08.13 - 04:44pm
I love browsing round music shops used to spend hours doin it.ive never bought anything off the internet.even sadder is the demise of book shops as well * +

9362 6.08.13 - 07:30pm
Go to ben's collectors second hand record shop in Guildford sometimes,always busy there * +

leonking 6.08.13 - 09:06pm
Theres a similar shop in chester.love the place * +

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