My great record shop closes down and im left with crappy campus shop selling NME sponsored shite among V festival going students

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What do i do?

they had a whole rack of noise

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Students have far worse taste than everybody thinks you know.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

They sold Jamie Cullem via students, didn't they?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

This is the best thread title i've seen all year!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Did they have a closing down sale?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

This one guy in my english class still hasn't taken his V festival bracelet off.

Let the good times roll, and roll on.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

I heard they aim NME at 19 year old students now.

Hari is the only rebel on campus.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

V is the Barratt Homes of festivals.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Hari move to one of the universities in Glasgow. Then you can shop at
Monorail!s

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

V is the Barratt Homes of festivals.

What is the NME then?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

The Nathan Barley of music magazines.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

if only!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

I always knew it wasnt downloading that was killing record shops. its the NME'S fault :-)

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

The NME are determined to stamp the last bit of joy out of music and grind it's corpse into the ground with their fashionably scuffed soles.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

n.b. I meant NB the person not the programme, Henry. It's still not a totally accurate analogy. I'm thinking about it.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

Mei, I think they have succeeded in doing that already.
Then again was the NME ever any good anyway? I always found it inferior to the MM when I was reading both in the early to late 90s.
(apart from when MM went REALLY bad in its latter years)

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

The closing down sale was 50% of EVERYTHING

and I only realised this when my girlfriend was visiting and I could only spend about 10 minutes in there. And I couldnt buy any Vinyl because I had no way of storing it or taking it home.

:(:(:(

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Does ANYONE have a heartening tale of their local independent record store going from strength to strength? RIP Big Star Records Wimbledon :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Where was Big star records Markelby, and when did it close?

― bidfurd__, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

SOULSEEK!!!!!!!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

You should be thankful the shop was open this long! Before I moved to London in 2001 I lived in Worcester and Reading and they both lost their only independent record shops in the mid 90s.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Big Star was right at the south end of the main parade of shops that stretched down the Broadway, opposite where the cinema used to be and where Jim Thompson's (I think?) is now. It must have closed about 1993? I was devastated - it had great stock for a small place and was an integral part of 16-year-old me's sense of place.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Bristol lost one of its independants last year I think. Soon there will be none.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Theres no record shops at all in my town now. And it's one of the bigger towns in Scotland. Woolies, Asda, Wh Smiths seem to cater for all the publics CD needs in Hamilton.

I have to travel 30 mins by train to Glasgow to buy records and cds.
So I tend to buy online now.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Reading has cuddly old Music Machine in something or other arcade nowadays.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Well I didn't really count the Sound Machine (I assume that's what you're talking about) cos it's just a second hand shop, not somewhere you can go to pick up independent releases you can't find in HMV.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

What happened to the Our Price in Hamilton? Did that go when they put a roof on it?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

about 3/4 years ago they changed its name to Sanity Entertainment. But it closed 2 years ago. (Impulse Records shut down in the late 90s).

Our Price is now GAME. And next to that we have an old firm shop(boo hiss).
So Hamilton is now basically coffee shops/mobile phone shops/computer game shops and various clothes shops and jewellers and BHS, M&S etc.

And yet it's still better than all the other local towns apart from East Kilbride. And even then I think EK only has an HMV as far as i know.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

EK's got a Virgin now as well. Cue much hilarity.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Selectadisc in Nottingham seems to be doing pretty well. I though the competition from Fopp around the corner might damage them but it's just made them more competitive, the shop seems to be just as full as ever whenever I go in.

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Bristol lost one of its independants last year I think.
Yeah, Imperial. I loved that shop.
Soon there will be none.
Replay still seems to be going, thankfully.

― Ranking Rupert (Ranking Rupert), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

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