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Argh... The only decent music retail chain in the UK has folded completely. It is a sad day for the high street. |
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A sad day indeed. They were really good for decent books and films as well as music (used to be real bargains in Fopp). |
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Yeah - the amount of brilliant stuff I got there, just because it was a fiver or something and on display. You can't really do that with online stores, good as they are. |
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my mate works at the one in edinburgh. after a few weeks of random shop closing and people in vans just turning up and taking stock he went in to work yesterday and they got an email saying that they wouldnt be getting paid on pay day (but at some point in the future) and that they were all on indefinate paid leave. hes fucked. |
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The future (and possibly present) is digital sales. It wouldn't surprise me if places like HMV suddenly set up some sort of terminal whereby people can bring in their mp3 player and choose from a large selection of titles to download directly. Licensing could be a pain, but they've got the money to do it. And yeah, I know you could just say "why not do it from home", but plenty of people still buy cds directly from stores like this when they could order them online, so I reckon its more than feasible. CD's are definitely on the way out though. |
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What's that book where advertising is transmitted directly to your brain? I ask because I was going to say I'm waiting for terminals where it downloads directly into your head, and it reminded me of that book. |
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SHIT it's fucking serious. Oh bloody hell. Saddest day ever. |
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I'm very skeptical about downloads being better than CDs. There's a spontaneity with physical records, that you just can't have on itunes music store. I can't imagine I'd ever splash out a fiver on some random release on the internet without hearing it first; wheras I would, and do, with CDs... Ah Fopp. I remember slowly building up my Sonic Youth collection from you and your £5 classic record section. Sigh. |
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They weren't that fucking good. I built up my Doors and Pink Floyd collexions years ago with £6 CDs at H.M.V. |
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God damned mp3s! I hate them! |
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FLAC all the way! |
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Ok, pirating then. I hate pirating! I buy as much of the music as I can. I'll admit I have a few albums on mp3, but I intend to buy them at a later date when I have the money (one of them costs $50 at the cheapest). Mp3s are good for sharing your own music if you don't intend to release it, but just want to bring some joy to people or something like that... |
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that's really shit news. only a couple of months ago a fopp store opened up in my hometown, and now gone. along with mp3s and the like, supermarkets are another, frequently overlooked, cause of the decline of the record shop, and decline of the mainstream music industry - as they only seem to stock the 'top 10'. |
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R.I.P. Fopp. |
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Our supermarkets are being bought over by American companies... it's their policy to stock utter shite. |
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Hah, Fuck though, there was at least 3 different 5 quid boxsets i had lined up to buy |
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life without mp3?? yeah having to wait a week for a new record. Or only really knowing the sounds on top of the freaking pops , radio 1 or whatever FUCK THAT SHIT!! i love mp3. music should be free ....donations welcome.(very important) |
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so yeah i donate by buying my fave artists albums at the moment..but in the future when we are all p2p'ing uncompressed music there be no need to buy a cd or whatever ..so then id just donate cash.... blah blah |
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Same. I think I bought half my Ae collection from there. Shit. |
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