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swansea jack wrote:
After the weekend I suddenly realised that in general the old music shop has died bar the odd one or two that are fighting against the tide what we 'oldies' used to call the record shop has left the building.

There used to be a time where we had HMV, Our Price and we had a virgin record shop as well as several specialist rock shops and three second hand shops that were all pretty decent now we have 1 solitary HMV that has more phones and t shirts than it does cd's let alone decent cd's and 1 independent shop thats main business is tickets and 1 second hand shop that only has a few hundred cd's. I used to love going to places like London and browsing round the promo shops in soho and a load of other shops but recently there was only sister ray left in soho and HMV on poxford st How sad is that?

Even somewhere like New York has seen an end to some of the cracking shops that used to be in the lower village, yup guess what? - all gone. How sad is it that our children will never be able to spend hours switched off and mooching through the isles of record shops finding out new releases by the cool bands for hours on end or meeting like minded mates hanging round outside arguing over a record sleeve or is glam coming back and what are the chances of Odin doing a full uk tour?. I was chatting about it today and we realised how sad it was.

Anyway do the readers of Uber Rock know of any good ones still open in their town maybe we should put up a list of shops that support good rock music. I know Tunny reads here and he had a go I always remember the kurfuffle over his shutters and the cool bands he used to get to play his shop. Is there any places left like that? I remember one in Kingston, surry was decent and Action in Preston as well. Raise a glass and champion the ickle record store still out there kicking against the pricks! \m/