I hope some specialty shops will hang around. There's a couple in Portland I hit everytime I go and I still find some treasures.

I think they train the FYE and Best Buy people to be idiots in order to speed up the demise of physical media. Yes I am "finding everything OK,". That's not even a proper way to word anything. Go away. I know they are but drones in a larger hive mind, they have the Borg headpieces to prove it. The best part is I can't tell if this is all only paranoia at this point. Has philosophy declared whether our realities can count as very real or not? I mean, it's pretty real to me. It's in my mind, and I believe it. If you tell me something else I will just see it as a lie. I think I'll go read 'The Secret' now and properly arm myself with manifestation.

I've always said give me a good set of headphones and play me the same song on CD vs. mp3 and I'll be able to tell you which one was the mp3. Mp3s just don't have the same highs that CDs have IMO. And being a "treble freak", that really annoys me.

I don't agree. The high-street, small, retail store is dying.

Most of my CDs are from used stores and online purchases. As long as the're threre I'll be buying them. Even if the CD store is all but gone. I will never download a CD that I won't eventually purchase, I just love them too much.

Soon there will be no more stores at all. Look into your future:



Choke it down America!!

The U.S. economy is dying.

The CD is dying.
Dimebag is dead.

My homies is dying, in my hood, in your hood, in hoods all across the USA. Why brothers gotta keep killing one another?

plus most cd stores around me dont carry what i want to listen to anyways...

there is an amazing store in Orlando called Park Avenue CD's. It has CDs, vinyls, underground mags, everything. Metal section leans a bit towards the death metal and post metal side of things, but the used section is huge, there is an amazing experimental/prog section....tons of DVDs... good stuff. And they use those huge old school CD cases with the big handle. I learned about an incredibly vulgar yet hilarious magazine called 'Vice' there and bought an album based off of plant frequencies. I rule.

I have an indie record shop called Rainbow that has a pretty good metal section, both new and used. They too tend towards the more extreme metal genres but they have some good melodic stuff too..

Best CD shop I've ever been in, by far, was in London. HMV I think. It was at Picadilly Circus. They didn't have Metal mixed in with Rock/Pop, but they had a section that was simply called: Metal.

yay!

The best used CD shop I've ever encountered was called "Great Escape" in Nashville, TN back in the 80s.

They had a ton of CDs and a ton of listening posts where you could listen to your CD before buying. When I moved to Jackson, TN in the late 80s I would still allocate one weekend a month to drive the 3 hours each way back to Nashville to go to Great Escape.

I don't even know if that store even exists anymore.

I should ammend my above post to say "these days" because if we go back to the 80's or 90's, well, there were some awesome ones.

The FYE in a county nearby was really awesome because the metal section was enormous and had a big handpainted sign on it saying so. I got stuff from Rage, Wintersun, Excalion, Sentenced, Grave Digger, Labyrinth, Falconer, Zero Hour, Necrophagist, Dan Swano, Isis......now that I think about it, I got a huge amount of stuff from there. No idea why they had so much good stuff. But I think it's going under because last time I was there the clearance section was..the store. Argh.

I love Walmart. Fantastic store.