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zelilgirlI1ncenu
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Dont you recognize meee from my avatar?
Danièle! |
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PeteS
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| zelilgirlI1ncenu wrote: | Dont you recognize meee from my avatar?
Danièle! |
Ah yes - I'm looking at it on a very small screen. Good to see you. I decided this was probably a better place for OT music discussions than the Blueboard (although I still post there too.....) |
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zelilgirlI1ncenu
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I think you will like it here. Plenty of other musics to discuss. |
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alan
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Good to see you here Pete!
Yeah, saw the story about FOPP today - my favourite Record stores - i popped into the Shaftesbury Avenue one every couple of weeks after meetings in central London.
I think they over-expanded. Bugger, they were great. The only place that had a good selection of back catalogue CDs around (well, there are still a few arounf Berwick St but the likes of Virgin and HMV are crap - the first doesn't carry the stock and HMV charge a fortune.)
Could have been a very bad week indeed if this place hadn't opened up!
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Rob
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| misterfusty wrote: | | Rob wrote: | | misterfusty wrote: | That's a real shame. I was hoping that they'd set one up here in Newcastle but I guess that's not going to happen now. The other cheap shop Music Zone (not as good but still good for bargains) has already shut down. When I sometimes go to Edinburgh I always stop by the Fopp for booty.
We have a Virgin shop here and I tell you what, you find it hard to buy cd's in there anymore. Only what's in the charts or in a sale. You used to be able browse the A-Z racks but it's all DVD's and Console games now.
Mind you I will say I hardly ever by CD's in a physical shop anymore purely because it's way cheaper on the net. That's what I don't get about Fopp's demise, they were as cheap or cheaper than buying on the net.
I admit I do download stuff illegally sometimes but anything that I download and really like I get on CD, because I like the to have the artwork in my hand and the superior quality.
Bought downloads just don't cut it for me. |
Our Music Zone in Liverpool shut down - and then opened up again! |
Is it still in St John's shopping centre? |
It's near St John's shopping centre, maybe (technically speaking) is part of it. I tend to just think of it as being in Williamson Square next door to the Playhouse Theatre. |
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Rob
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| koeeoaddi there wrote: |
i remember that Music Zone! some scally pushed in front of me in the queue and i was too scared to say anthing for fear of the hoodlum's no doubt violent response  |
I remember it well. |
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Rob
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Rob wrote: | | misterfusty wrote: | | Rob wrote: | | misterfusty wrote: | That's a real shame. I was hoping that they'd set one up here in Newcastle but I guess that's not going to happen now. The other cheap shop Music Zone (not as good but still good for bargains) has already shut down. When I sometimes go to Edinburgh I always stop by the Fopp for booty.
We have a Virgin shop here and I tell you what, you find it hard to buy cd's in there anymore. Only what's in the charts or in a sale. You used to be able browse the A-Z racks but it's all DVD's and Console games now.
Mind you I will say I hardly ever by CD's in a physical shop anymore purely because it's way cheaper on the net. That's what I don't get about Fopp's demise, they were as cheap or cheaper than buying on the net.
I admit I do download stuff illegally sometimes but anything that I download and really like I get on CD, because I like the to have the artwork in my hand and the superior quality.
Bought downloads just don't cut it for me. |
Our Music Zone in Liverpool shut down - and then opened up again! |
Is it still in St John's shopping centre? |
It's near St John's shopping centre, maybe (technically speaking) is part of it. I tend to just think of it as being in Williamson Square next door to the Playhouse Theatre. |
Actually, I just walked past it this morning - looks like it's shut down again! (Probably because it was owned by these Fopps people who I'd never heard of before.) |
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MoogDroog
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Rob
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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But not for Music Zone in Liverpool.
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koeeoaddi there
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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or for fopp in bristol 
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Joel5000
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| PeteS wrote: | | Seems like HMV may be next, or at least will need to restructure in order to survive. As much as i like (legal) downloads and buying cds online, I also like browsing in stores. I was lucjy enough to be in Portland, Oregon recently, a city which seems able to sustain a number of large independent music storss - one way they seem to do this is by having lots of in-store performances by local bands and also by selling second hand discs (something Fopp / HMV / Tower didn't or don't do). I'd be sad to see the total demise of physical stores but it seems to be more or less inevitable... |
When I lived in Portland, I was lucky enough to live within walking distance of the Music Millenium store on NW 23rd. They probably had 2 or 3 in-store performances each week, and it wasnt just local bands. Major acts that were coming through town often would do afternoon sets there before their show. I saw some great sets at Millenium. |
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alan
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Yeah, saw that and did a little jump in the air (well, mentally...) as the London shop was the one I frequented most other than the Camden shop.
Bit of a shame for the employees at the other 75 shops though....
But YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Primey Prime
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Haven't the shops closed already though? I mean, technically there'll be those jobs saved for the workforce, but won't the people working there have gone on to pastures new by the time they re-open?
I used the Tottenham Court Road one anyway. Sometimes Camden, which was smaller. I've never actually been to the Covent Garden one. |
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