Mannoroth wrote:
Well anything metal for that matter. You'll find that apart from the really main stream stuff metal albums are usually imports and thus far more expensive than the other stuff. On the one hand, at least some music stores are making an effort to accomodate the metal heads, but on the other its kinda pointless because its mostly rediculously expensive.
It's like that for so many non-mainstream genres. I would far prefer to give my money to a local retailer, but so little of the music that I want is available locally. Things are looking up for me a bit since I moved closer to Hyde Park because the Look & Listen there is better than most. I have heard tell of a very good and interesting store in Killarney Mall. I need to check that one out.
I'm still old school like that, I still like to buy the real cd with booklet, cool art etc..
Well me three. I like to read the lyrics, the liner notes (some guys do them better than others), note who is playing on each track.
There's a flip side to this argument - or so I'm told. That is that kids who are only interested in currently fashionable music resent paying even R150 for a CD because it's usually 2 singles, the songs they actually want, and a pile of filler that nobody wants. The theory goes on to say that record stores and record companines are selling to completely the wrong market because they guy who comes in and asks for John Martyn or Joni Mitchell or Larry Carlton has an expectation of getting a disc's worth of good music that he will listen to repeatedly, WANTS the CD booklet, and doesn't mind spending R250.
