The Local Metal Shop

After not finding much of what I was looking for on CD Baby and Bandcamp, I went to the local metal music emporium (I live in Vancouver, Canada)  They had a decent selection to Proggy metal and heavy music to look through, but at 50-150% higher than I could purchase via Itunes and Itunes still have a better selection.  I asked about prices and he said that online purchasing has driven many retailers out of business as well as accounting for higher CD prices.  Kind of sad, really.  I'll go back, despite prices, because sometimes it's just fun to search around and I would like to see businesses like this stay open.

Edited by twalsh - November 21 2014 at 14:58

Austin should be reprimanded for recommending the former

I guess this could be moved to the Recommendations sub-forum

Meh, I gave up on brick and mortar shops long ago, too small a selection at too high a price. Most of my purchases over the last 10 years have been from Amazon or direct from the bands themselves. I don't actually mind that in most cases the bands charge more for their albums than somewhere like Amazon would, if I really care about a band it's nice to know that most of the money I sent went to them and not some third party (all things being equal, which it usually isn't, but they're still going to get a greater share).


Edited by sleeper - November 21 2014 at 15:58

I had given both albums a listen on Youtube first.  I actually both liked and disliked Cynic more.  The music was more exciting but there was just enough death growling to give me second thoughts.  I've also purchased Karnivool and IQ's latest via iTunes.

^After that you can graduate to Focus!

Okay, "Emporium" may have been a slight exaggeration.

Wasn't Scrape Records, was it?