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Agreed.
I buy maybe 75% of my albums online now and get them delivered purely because the only place to stock them, if anywhere, is HMV, which is hideously over-priced.
Independents need decent prices but, more importantly, they need a vast collection of primarily "alternative" music, because the sort of demographic that would shop at an independent are exactly the sort of people who would be interested in buying such music in the first place. The staff need to be knowledgeable too. Of course you can forgive them for not knowing some early '80s or mid-'60s band who you've researched religiously or whatever, but they need to be capable of advising and recommending because that's half their job.
I'd be willing to pay a little extra to get a record straight away if some guy was behind the desk enthusing about the band I was into.
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Album of the Week:
Pylon Gyrate 1980
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