Just a couple of things in passing. I was in HMV this week. I did my semi-regular Dark Side of the Moon price check. The 30th Anniversary edition was on sale In Belfast this week for an eye watering £20. £20 for a 7 year old re-issue of 37 year old album? They are, quite clearly, "having a laugh". Perhaps I shouldn't extrapolate from this one example, but it strikes me as peculiar that so many seen to think that only reason for their decline in sales is internet piracy. To the point I've had to conclude that they can't be that naive. And so rather than consider pricing as a contributing factor it's just easier to blame a faceless bogeyman - the internet pirate for their ills. Which, rather neatly, allows them to sidestep any culpability. But the point is moot. Whatever the reason, I think it's a mindset that is, inevitably, leading to tears.
Saw this article about Independent record shops on the BBC website. More interesting is the link to this website. Now the site has the faint whiff of Euronics about it, but it seems their hearts are in the right place, so it gets a thumbs up from me. Well, kind of. The link to a pdf called the "Record Store Survival guide" has set my "Spider sense" tingling. But I'll come back to this - when my head isn't filled with "redoing CVs again, for the nth time".
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