tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post562704332480702832..comments2023-09-25T12:03:00.637+01:00Comments on Tom Morton's Beatcroft: Record shops. It's overUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-23279967898279549362011-03-01T11:24:06.487+00:002011-03-01T11:24:06.487+00:00Can only speak for myself. I will always buy a CD ...Can only speak for myself. I will always buy a CD and when I can afford it the vinyl (which is just getting a wee bit too expensive for me).<br /><br />I've tried downloading, it just does not work for me. <br /><br />Get out and support record store day folks 19th April!norriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10034197123961276501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-4247526840319154552011-02-28T09:25:30.481+00:002011-02-28T09:25:30.481+00:00Yes, you are right and having been in Clive's ...Yes, you are right and having been in Clive's it will be a loss.<br />However there is still a merket for collectors and living in Malvern I have found a local business that seems to show the way forward. (classiclps.co.uk). They have a warehouse where you can browse new and second hand lps and cds but it is the mail order business that is the main business - plus the record label (they are I believe reissuing Eddi Reader's wonderful Burns songs on vinyl shortly) - so there is a way forward for independents; it is just different from what was done before.<br />Given this there is no reason why an independent in Lerwick could not be viable but whether Clive (or anyone else) would want to make the change to a totally different business model is the question as it involves other businmess skills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-53140257941656242152011-02-25T17:09:53.564+00:002011-02-25T17:09:53.564+00:00Sadly I think you're right. Though there's...Sadly I think you're right. Though there's nothing quite like a good independent shop, whether second hand or not. I, most probably through pigheadedness, always prefer to buy 'actual' product rather than digital but even at that I tend to get them at Play.com. Mind you, I'm around 100miles from the nearest record shop, the wonderful Imperial Music in Inverness. To be honest I've bought very little over the last 12-18 months as, Admiral Fallow and Frightened Rabbit aside, everything seems to have a very tired 'been done before' sound to it. Next purchase will be the Roddy Woomble solo record which, as a result of typing this, I.ve decided to try to buy in an actual shop!Single Trackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12659569441973581784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704984.post-59580563122115744462011-02-25T15:36:32.167+00:002011-02-25T15:36:32.167+00:00Saw you tweet this Tom, read it and thought I'...Saw you tweet this Tom, read it and thought I'd add a pennys worth. <br /><br />Buying albums was for me a right of passage in my teenage years. You had to have the latest Bad Co/Yes/Zep/Floyd recordings. Part of it was to see the Roger Dean artwork, but mainly it was to hear the music. My record store of choice at that time was "Listen" in Glasgow. Ah the nostalgia.... <br /><br /><br />I can't remember the owners name, but latterly my CD buying came from Goldrush Records in Perth. Much like your Clive's Records, Goldrush was a great place to have your musical tastes broadened. <br />Sadly it too has stopped trading. However at a recent gig in Kinross lo and behold "Goldrush" has reappeared. He's got a room adjacent to the gig room at the Green Hotel and whenever there's a gig on open up for CD/vinyl sales. Otherwise he trades on ebay. I guess this supports the view that CD/vinyl shops will only exist in niche markets. <br /><br />The point you make about Spotify and others is good. Until a recent business trip abroad I'd not fully realised how much of my listening is through Spotify. It only hit home to me when I went to find several playlists on my iPod and they weren't there. I'm on a free acount so I don't have off-line access. But I might now be being persuaded to buy a premium account. The "killer app" for me of Spotify is the size of it's catalogue. Whenever I want I can find almost any song I want to listen to. That's an edge a store will never beat. But I can't have Spotify in my car. I can't have Spotify on holiday. (or maybe I could with the premium and offline mode). So I still buy CDs, but many fewer than before.carrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02068221809652517364noreply@blogger.com