Where do you buy your music?
 

Myself, I 9 times out of 10 will go to HMV.

Now and again I'll order of Amazon.

Where do you go? and why do you choose there?

The Internet, see the other thread>>

The other thread?

the one that you made, dude.

Ah yes, asking there would've been better since it's all relevent. Apologies.

I'll buy mine from anywhere, if they have what I want.

Amazon.
Best Buy.
Half.com
Ebay.
FYE
Hot Topic.

I gives no fuck

Mmm, online shopper by the sounds of it.

Don't you prefer going to a store, buying it, bringing it home, awaiting to hear it?

I do.

But I'm too lazy for that so I online it up :D

There is really nowhere around here that has a decent selection. FYE is all, it's ok sometimes.

Other than that, I usually just head to Amazon.

I do. But too often I am disappointed by not finding the things I want most, or prices that are higher than online. So most times...I buy online.

Amazon Marketplace
Half.com
Wherehouse.com/Secondspin.com
eBay
CDbaby.com
Brushedgolden.com

The CD stores around here are ****.
So I resort to online.

I usually feed my music needs at manifest.

I buy music in three primary locations in Nash
Grimey's- Great for getting the new stuff on Vinyl. The used stuff they have on display don't deliver quite as much though. HOWEVER this is compensated by the tubs of used music that aren't on display. It's funner, and cheaper, to dig through those.
There is one gripe I have about this place though; this is a local hipster hotspot, so I tend not to talk to people while I'm there.

Great Escape- Great for getting oldies on Vinyl for a VERY good price. CD collection is solid as well. But the main reason I love Great Escape are the plethora of posters you can purchase.

FYE- If that's all that's left...

The record stores near me (and I have quite a few, fortunately) are good and have a pretty good selection, but I'm usually shopping for used stuff and come out disappointed...despite their vast selection. I tend to look for obscure stuff, I guess. But I do enjoy going to browse once in a while, regardless.

Indy CD & Vinyl and Luna Music are the only decent record stores around here. So when I'm not in the mood to fight through a crowd of hipsters to get some albums I just go to Best Buy.

When I buy music I usually get it from a local music store near my house called Slikdisc, or I buy it directly off the band from their website. Never been a fan of any of those other online music stores. When I purchase music I like to have the actual cd. I've occasionally brought from Best Buy before.

I've been buying a lot of music off amiestreet.com. There's not much in the way of music stores here, Hot Topic has some decent stuff at reasonable prices, but I really dislike going into that store let alone giving them my money. Occasionally I'll buy something at Best Buy, but lately they've been pretty crappy.

We used to have a Zavvi store in my town but the whole store chain went bust and closed just after xmas. I was like a kid in a candy-store when it was open. Now i either browse though the second-hand CD racks in another of my local record stores, where i've come across quite a few gems at really low prices, or get the train to Dublin to visit Tower Records (one of the last remaining ones in the whole world!) and the various indie-stores dotted around the city centre. It's really easy to pick up great cds at really cheap prices nowdays.

I like:

Record & Tape Exchange - used vinyl and c.d. store tucked into the back corner of a strip mall near me. They have a huge collection of 60's and 70's type rock stuff, and usually a few good indie, alternative and post punk records. It's really just all about luck at this place.

Smash! Records - When I get to D.C., I always stop here if I can manage time. They have a bunch of used punk and alternative records, and get the new stuff right away. There are some other good spots in D.C. too.

Besides that, I go to used book stores to find c.d.s, F.Y.E. when I want some new or specific stuff on c.d., and there's a few hidden spots around like thrift stores and random places that sometimes have records behind the counter that are worth looking through. Other than that, ebay can be good for cheap vinyl if you're lucky, amazon, and label websites to order new stuff that I can't find at stores. There's just something magical about going into a record store, browsing through all the vinyl, talking to the staff about music, and listening to stuff you've never heard with the people working there.

There's a record exchange 25 minutes or so away from me, so I try to get out there 1 or 2 times a month. Best Buy for new releases though.

I buy mostly online:
cdwow
bangcd
amazon
bol.com (Dutch online web shop)
Record stores are disappearing fast over here and are over priced anyway so I go online. I'm not into really obscure stuff so I manage to find most things.

Absolutely. My friend spent two years and zero dollars accumulating almost a year of listening on his hard drive...

Then he felt guilty and began buying itunes albums that the library didn't have.

fiftytwopointfive Charleston, SC

Manifest Columbia, SC

And the only things I have in my home town are FYE and Best Buy. Hooray for Myrtle Beach.:thumb::mad:

Best Buy. I hate waiting for stuff in the mail, especially cd's.

Yeah i hate ordering CDs, and usually the CD cases are damaged when i get them.

Karma records, Plymouth Indiana

90% of the time I purchase most of my music on Itunes. The other 10% are my weekly visits to Best Buy.

If for some reason I feel like being viciously sodomized at the register I'll go to a mall chain like HMV, but generally speaking I go to the little local used record/CD stores.

I split my cd binging between Amazon/amazon marketplace & Play.com. Ocassionally Ebay (if I'm desperate). I also have been to Fopp in Glasgow/Edinburgh a few times but as I stay in Falkirk and too lazy to go through to either usually, so just buy most online. Those Fopp shops are like heaven to me, I could easily live in one. If I won the lottery, that would be the first place I would go.

Mostly I'll buy stuff in person at the giant HMV in Toronto, but sometimes I'll buy off of iTunes. On rare occasions, I'll order the physical copy online. I preordered the new Alexisonfire album, for example.

HMV's pretty weird over in America i gather!

FYE is ten times worse. don't expect paying under $20 for a record, even for the garbage albums in the corner nobody looks at.

I usually order them off of Amazon.

Oh god I hate FYE. High prices and a bad selection, hooray! There's a big FYE in downtown Philly in the space that used to be occupied by Tower Records and you know what? Even with all that space, they still suck. I just can't wrap my mind around how they can take the exact same retail space that Tower used to fill with a pretty solid selection and somehow still have the same limited selection as their small stores at the mall.

There's a big record store over here in Amsterdam that's slightly over priced but has a good selection. I still rarely go there since they have many discount CDs and I always walk out with big stacks of albums and a huge hole in my budget.