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http://www.retail-week.com/nav?page=retailweek.news.detail&resource=6897573

Music retailer Fopp has stopped taking orders online and is only accepting cash payments at its stores.

Fopp posted on its web site: “Due to circumstances beyond our control we cannot currently take orders online. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.” A notice on the tills said it was having problems with “authorisation systems”.

This follows an announcement on Friday that it had closed 50 stores for an extraordinary stock-take, a week after it told publishers to stop supplying new books and replenishments.

looking bad, as far as i can tell. administration at worst, THE MOST AMAZING CLOSING DOWN SALE EVER at best (apologies to those who work/know others who work there...)

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From:

freakytigger.livejournal.com

Can it really be the case that the idea of the new Rough Trade shop is that you go to a shop IN ORDER TO DOWNLOAD STUFF?

What lunacy is this???

From:

jeff-worrell.livejournal.com

I did wonder if this was an indie revival of the "compile your own mix CD" from our catalogue idea that was mooted a couple of years ago and then never seemed to happen.

From:

chezghost.livejournal.com

I've supported this idea for years now! It is potentially good because it maintains the 'sociable' aspect of track hunting in a way that just sitting at home on msg boards doesn't and I like the idea of there being specific places where people could gather to do that kind of thing, hang out, argue, share music etc. and get recommendations from 'actual experts who know their thing'. Internet cafe meets record shop essentially - why not? They should provide CD-R compilations of music pre-permitted by labels/BPI too i.e. 'Instant Collection/Guide To X'

From:

freakytigger.livejournal.com

THERE WAS NEVER A SOCIABLE ASPECT OF RECORD HUNTING - total lie, there were rows of men in duffle coats flicking through the racks, occasionally jostling one another, and people behind the counter trying not to catch their eye.

This has always been the most boggling part of the whole "oh the record shop experience is dying noes" argument.

From:

chezghost.livejournal.com

I think we're both generalising here! In my college my vinyl-loving DJ friend and I would go record shopping here and there, talk to the shop owners and all that even tho I wasn't obsessed with the format.

Maybe that wasn't the mode but I'm sure lots of MENG into the same music did that, if the opportunity was there.

From:

blue-russian.livejournal.com

When I was in high school, there was a CD shop where I had that kind of thing - it was always kind of empty and the guy there knew lots of stuff that I didn't, so we struck up a reasonable friendship despite the fact that he was probably 10 years older than me.

But that was the time. The rest of the time it was as

freakytigger says, solitary guys intently flicking through racks.

From:

carsmilesteve.livejournal.com

having been to the old rough trade shop (neal street) at lunchtime this sounds ok, rather than:

me: have you got the k'naan alBUM?
RT: cane-an?
me: yeah, somalian rapper dude
RT: taps at computer then disappears out back for two minutes, then reappears with boss looking dude
BD: cane-an?
me: yeah, he was on at glastonbury with the marleys, somalian rapper dude
BD: ah well, we don't really do "world", you wanna try ray's jazz innit

he mayaswell have just said NO BLACK MUSIC HERE, AWAY WITH YOU!!!!