JasonB Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 I've been buying from there since 1998 cd's at first and then going to vinyl only and then recent few years cd's and vinyl again but buying less stuff on vinyl and downloading instead but still buying certain stuff on cd singles and albums plus vinyl picture disc etc.. Its the music departent, one department of many of a long running department store called Knees thats existed at the same site for over a 100 years. The deprtamnet wil be closing april 1st due to not making enough money anymore Will be ad to see it go as I bacem good friends with John & Vallie the salwarts of the department for around 20 years, very knowledgable and helpful and a good laugh aswell, I could order stuff in and have it put aside for a few weeks till i could visit next, its the personal touch that counst and big chains like HMV and co just arent the same. Being a 'independent' basically they have never been able to compete with the chaeper deals that smiths woolies and all the supermarkets like tescos do on cd's and thefore everythings the standard price. Kness still sell vinyl even know and always have done so that side will be definately missed big time. They also sold accesories such as headphones, blank tapes/videosn/cdrs the works and even kareoke CD's. Downloads have definately in a way taken a toll on sales and thats a bad thing for places like this. I'm paying my first visit of the year this afternoon and possibley the last before the department closes, it helped build a large chunk of my music collection and musical memories so will never be forgotten. Essay overage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 it is always a shame to hear things like this happening, the 2 shops near me in sheffield are both very poor now, in fact one has closed - the other hardly gets any fresh vinyl in. It is as u have said down to downloads, but also due to the bigger companies nudging them aside - take tesco for example - just greed and monopolisation! Have to go thru the internet fully now ey jas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 yeah im 99% downloads as it is anyhows ah well might see me buying some vinyl fro juno once in a while again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Yeah agree with the above. It is a shame to see these shops closing, but I am part of the problem. Downloading is quick, cheap and open 24/7. However, I'm amazed at how busy 23rd Precinct is when I occassionally pop in at lunchtime to cheer myself up. It seems as though they are still doing something right and have very upfront stuff instock. Interestingly, I see that bands are now starting to release their music on memory sticks and the press are hyping this as the 'new CD.' So how long til we all have to ditch our CDJs and get memory stick DJ-Players :confused: :smirk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 F**k the hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 F**k the hype. lmao! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Its only keane ive seen have done two singles like that the firts one was hmv exclsuivbe, f**k the sticks Im happy with cd's myself, sticks are basically mp3 djing imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Totally agree! Think it was the Fratellis that released today on a stick. I resisted vinyl long enough, so I'm sure to resist this, if it ever happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I don't like shops closing - my local Post Office closed a couple of years ago and now I have to drive 10 minutes just to post parcels. Irritating, why close such an important facility, this government is cost-cutting mad :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 this government is cost-cutting mad :wall: Definately! The best thing they can do to cut costs is sack John Prescott - the biggest waste of money ever to set foot on the planet. If they flog his two jags for £30,000 each and cut his salary, thats about £160,000 per year the governemt can save. That should pay about 8 post office workers per year. They should also introduce that fat tax they were talking about bringing in to stop people from eating junk food. Judging by the guts on John Prescott, Gordon Brown and Claire Short, that should bring a nice whopping income into the country. Give them all the £5.60p per hour wage that they tell the rest of us we can afford to live on - i'm sure they can manage (after all, theys ay its a generous salary). Give Cherrie Blair the same wage too - instead of the £25,000 she picked up over the weekend for doing a short lecture - just for being the PM's wife. This goverment piss me off something chronic. Labour told us they wanted people to have only one property each to give everyone a fair chance in the property market. Three days after that, it was announced that Tony Blair was buying additional property, and John Reid was also buying additional market. This same government also want to price drivers off the road to force us into using public transport - while Prescott swans around in one of his two Jags which are funded by us taxpayers. The fattest MP's ever to grace the houses of parliament are also telling us we're too obese, and the same bunch are telling us that we can live off a minimum wage of £5.50 per hour - while they're all earning £120,000+ AND claiming expenses. Claiming expenses? WTF is that all about? I'm pretty sure if I try to claim my petrol, food and drink allowances back from my work, they'll tell me where to go. They're also saying more people are in jobs than ever before - but what they don't tell you is that those workers were once skilled car builders earning £40,000 pear year - but now, because Labour have killed that industry, they're now stacking baked beans in Tesco for £10,000 per year! Yeah, they've got a job - but on a quarter of their previous salary! They also complained about the Conservatives "dodginess", yet Labour are just as bad! They've had god knows how many gay MP's caught on Clapham Common, and those that aren't gay have been caught screwing their secretaries in their offices. Blair is telling us we've got to behave ourselves because ASBO issuing is at an all time high - while is son is found drunk in Leicester Square slumped across a pavement. Hardly setting examples are they? Who the hell keeps voting these morons in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Who keeps them in? The Northerners surely. Why don't they just stick to coal-mining? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Who keeps them in? The Northerners surely. Why don't they just stick to coal-mining? There aren't any coal miners left, thanks to the Tories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 There's feck all left now. We're just a country full of mortgage advisers, bankers, dustmen and shelf stackers. Call centre's have gone abroad, engineering has gone abroad, car manufacturing has gone abroad. Everything we buy is imported cheap s*** from Taiwan or Hong Kong that lasts for five minutes too. We can't even have a letter in the post now with English as the first language - we have to plough through Arabic, Punjabi, Greek, Scouse and Geordie before we get to the English.... We can't even have display a union jack or call Christmas lights Christmas lights any more because its deemed as offensive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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