Rush my money to the record shops

[venta]

Crap.

HMV is going into administration.

And if HMV goes, it'll take Fopp with it (I imagine).

And that'll be the end of the big high street record shops.

If it causes an outbreak of independent record shops, then hurrah! I fear it won't. And I like record shops.

I don't browse well online, not for music or for books. I want to pick stuff up, and look at it. I want to own a CD, and a nice cover, and some sleevenotes. I want to be able to wander into a record shop, and listen to what's playing. I want to flick through CDs and see what's on offer.

I'm a dinosaur.

Time for a ceremonial trip to HMV on the way to work in the morning.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

If they follow the nice-coffee-shop model bateleur and I were talking about above, then maybe your new CDs/books could be delivered to the shop and you could pick them up the next day (and have more coffee and more cake and find more new things while you're there :)

[lnr]

Not too bad for me - I live out of town but work fairly close and can pop in on lunch breaks, though it can be a bit draining. No good at all for Mike - who works even further from the shops than he lives!