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Post by Richard & Amanda In Cornwall on Jun 29, 2007 20:33:04 GMT
This article lifted from the bbc website shows how bad things are for collectors like us,it is really sad to see this going on,ebay may be great but it is damaging the second hand shops.We have no second hand record shops in Plymouth anymore,I used to love finding gems in them. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6707255.stm |
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Post by Steve Price on Jun 29, 2007 21:29:05 GMT
Regrettably, it's not just the second hand shops that are closing.
Lots of Independent CD shops have already closed this year inc a friend of mine who closes his shop in Chelmsford tomorrow (after 15 years).
Downloading, cheap imports from abroad (eg. Play ship from Jersey, Tesco ship from Switzerland, CD Wow from Hong Kong - all with No VAT of course), are all to blame. Not forgetting the record companies who release loads of crap.
So, make the most of it... there may be even fewer by the end of the year.
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Post by Richard & Amanda In Cornwall on Jun 30, 2007 13:46:35 GMT
As I have said to you Steve,can' t understand downloading you cant beat having the product in your hand and on your cd shelf.
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Post by sam on Jun 30, 2007 13:47:36 GMT
As I have said to you Steve,can' t understand downloading you cant beat having the product in your hand and on your cd shelf. Gotta agree with this  S..x |
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Post by Woody on Jun 30, 2007 17:23:57 GMT
Its not just downloading, that effects the small independent shops. As Steve has pointed out, if like me you shop around especially on the internet you can find things cheaper than on the high street. It is a great Shame that all the indie record shops are going out of business, i have great memories of my favourite indie shop SUNDOWN RECORDS, who unfortunately went under 2 years ago. They did well to survive as long as they did with a HUGE Virgin Megastore that opened in the mid nineties just round the corner and a Huge MVC some years later, they outlasted the MVC, but i believe that company went bump anyway. It was a sad day when they called it a day, considering the shop had been their since the late 60's, I liked the personal touch and the staff had a knowledge of music (especially Rock).
Woody
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Post by Richard & Amanda In Cornwall on Jun 30, 2007 17:31:38 GMT
Paul you are so right,I work for a supermarket and I see what we can knock popular stuff out for,it is less for what Indie stores can buy it in for.it is wrong it should be how it is in Japan with set prices.
It really does upset me,as collecting music is a big thing for us(not just Survivor either).We should all support the indie online retailers as they give a great service.
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Post by Liz from Cheshire on Jun 30, 2007 17:35:28 GMT
. , i have great memories of my favourite indie shop SUNDOWN RECORDS, who unfortunately went under 2 years ago. Woody God I remember them, they had a branch in Wolverhampton. Spent many a happy Saturday in there. |
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Post by hazychris on Jul 1, 2007 19:26:35 GMT
I work in Bedford, which is a large town, when I was younger, we had HMV, Andy's Records, Our Price, over the last 5 years, they have all closed down or gone under, in the case of Andy's records. Since then only had MVC, which went bust, replaced by Music Zone, that went bust, followed by FOPP, that closed down all its 105 branches. If these major's can't survive how can indepenents. So on Monday, I have no record/cd shops to spend my dinner hour in at all!!!!!
Of course with ebay I have found loads of great buys, and establish friends and contacts, but nothing like going into a record shop and buying a cd at lunchtime & cheering yourself up, even though the selection of cds, is pretty poor anyway.
Record fairs are fine, but great buys are few and far between, and my trips to London, going through the records shop's in Berwick Street are very rare now, due to the unrest.
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