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Points: 21588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 05:37
Yesterday I purchased the vinyl edition of the new Symphony X album ... awesome artwork, no CD package can compete with a gatefold vinyl!

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - June 30 2007 at 05:38
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Points: 1356 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 12:08
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Tragically, UK based music retailer FOPP is to close all it's stores. It blames serious slumps in CD sales.

The London branch of FOPP sold shelves full of prog rock, for as little as £3.00, as well as latest releases. The company blames downloading for nose diving CD sales.

FOPP RIP

Sad news.

Does anyone here prefer buying CD's to downloading, or am I the last one?



Dammit! Fopp is where I get most of my CDs and DVDs Cry

The irony here is that I'll often download and album and if I really like it I'll go into Fopp and pick up a copy for a reasonable price.


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Points: 20414 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:14
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

CDs beat downloading any day. I've never heard of FOPP though!
 
Neither had I really!!
 
But since I am not living in the UK
 
Never downloaded anything >> wouldn't know how
 
However we lost one of the three semi-independant store in Brussels called Musicmania last month.
 
And that famous Belgian library system I tell everyone (and that world envies us, almost as much as the beerWink) has to lay-off 40% of the workers, because even the renting is getting bad.
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Points: 21588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:27
^ no wonder if people copy the CDs they rent ... Wink
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Points: 20414 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 14:48
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ no wonder if people copy the CDs they rent ... Wink
 
 
Well can't say that doesn't happen once in a whileEmbarrassed
 
This was no problems/influence for the numbers of locations though as the choice for discovery is incredible.
 
Rentals really started dipping when Napster went down after their lost trial.
 
I believe it's the fact of having to get out of the house, ordering it and having to wait for it (in case they don't have there and it must come from the central location). that they don't like anymore.
 
People want everything on the spot nowadays. Abd since you can taste it on the net (even in small samples), people will not get out to rent or buy something they didn't appreciate or thought as average.
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Points: 285 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 14:57
I downloaded a cd once through Wal-Mart because it was unavailable otherwise. I buy most of my actual cds on the internet . I think most brick and mortar shops need to do an online business to stay alive and offer competitive prices. It seems FOPP had online service.  I don't really enjoy going to record store anymore.
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 16:02
Bit of a teaser this one. Quite a few paradoxes here
 
I have never downloaded - nor intend to. (I can't see the point in downloading something with crappy mp format when you can have the CD to hold and look at and sonically far superior). I have several music systems to play CDs and I also convert them to play on my Walkman and computer
 
I don't live in an area that has FOPP - in fact this is the first I have heard of them - but I'm sorry to see any specialist shop go under.
 
I've pretty much exhausted High Street stores range of stock but usually check them out first and compare them to Amazon. If there's a couple of quid difference I'll normally buy locally but that's becoming increasingly rare these days. But I did get the new DTs locally (that's Dream Theater and Devin Townsend).
 
There are some good independents around though eg Caerllysi. Just depends on your genre
 
Hope you get my drift 
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Points: 865 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2007 at 16:34
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Yesterday I purchased the vinyl edition of the new Symphony X album ... awesome artwork, no CD package can compete with a gatefold vinyl!


Now you're making me jealous! The local stores here got so few copies in that they sold out immediately, and the guy behind the counter in one of them told me I might as well order it online! So much for browsing through the record store looking for treasures Cry
The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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