Last Shop Standing

Enjoyed a cracking Saturday night in the company of Graham Jones and Pip Piper, the team behind Last Shop Standing which came out waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2012. In the intervening years record shops seems to have gone from strength to strength as owning 'a vinyl' (as the kids say) is about as cool as you can get. 

If you read this blog regularly (bless you) you'll know that I've been banging the drum for CDs for a while and I reckon if record shops got on board with this they'd get even more people through their doors. Why? Well, owning, storing and playing a CD's a doddle compared with vinyl (as I have far too much of both, you can trust me on this one) and you can pick second hand ones up for pennies right now. Of course record shops would want to charge a little more than the charity shops but I suspect they'd do pretty well if they sold a carefully selected range of CDs for a few quid. Vinyl heads can be pretty sniffy about CDs...I used to be...but if you want a physical copy of your favourite music with the same artwork and liner notes that you get with vinyl (albeit in a handier size) CDs are a great bet. And, unlike vinyl, it'll sound just as good on the 1000th play as it did on the first...which certainly can't be said of any other format. If they launch National CD Day soon you'll know who to blame.