Personaly I hate it, I used to love going shopping for music, browsing the CD's and taking a punt on some band I'd never heard of before. Doing the same online is nowhere near as gratifying. And ultimately for me, just having the Download isnt enough, I want to have the physical CD or Vinyl not just a download on my Ipod

I get the real cds too. I miss shopping for cds that way too, but in a way it is the industries fault. It can also be looked at as a positive.

Now a lot of bands are selling their own cds online and have become closer too their fans

Don't think it's 'bad' or 'good', just what comes with the evolution towards a paperless society. Just like how newspapers dying out and people are moving to online articles and news apps, but there will always be people that prefer a hard copy. It has its place but is becoming an old means of distributing music. Not to mention that the CD itself is becoming obsolete. A few weeks ago Sony and Panasonic teamed up to develop a next-gen optical disc standard. Might be interesting to see what the result will be.

I love browsing round music shops used to spend hours doin it.ive never bought anything off the internet.even sadder is the demise of book shops as well

Go to ben's collectors second hand record shop in Guildford sometimes,always busy there

Theres a similar shop in chester.love the place

Croydon had a cracker ...remember Shades just off soho in london ..berwick street,soho.got selectadisc..n mr cd ..nd the other couple lol atm my nearest bestest is Spillers in Cardiff

iThink.its oldest record store in Uk ..i like markets too n Pontypridd gotta decent music.stall : )

i was gutted when they stopped selling dnb vinyl in my town. one shop stopped stocking dnb, and bpm record shop dissapeared