I think downloading can make for lazy listening, too. With an album, often some songs take a lot of plays before they really sink in. I've seen me coming back to an old album and suddenly 'getting' a song I hadn't give a really careful listen to at first......so, if I was only downloading I wouldn't have picked them in the first place. Plus, really good albums have sequenced the songs so that they fit well alongside the others.
I like a record shop where they have new releases which I really want.....it doesn't happen often in HMV or Zavvi. It still happens sometimes in One-Up, but I've got a wee list to take with me when I visit Monorail on Sunday....hopefully they'll stock some of my 'wants'. The last place I visited which seemed to really cater for me was Alt.Vinyl in Newcastle, which I visited last year.
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