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What a load of crap!
"little amazing musical gem you could think of hiding amongst the shelves", "what kind of gems you can find hidden in the back of the shop". [Is it just me or is there a stunning similarity between these posts?]
Call me a Philistine, but surely the aim is to find the music. To hunt down obscure artists like Jeremy Taylor [check him out] or to find tracks from Bob Wills which have been out of print for 40 years is just impossible, even in the land of conspicuous consumption, but since the advent of the internet, e v e r y t h i n g is available. Software like P2P has made the entire playlist of the universe available and quite frankly, given the choice of surfing for 30 minutes, or spending hour upon hour grubbing through cardboard boxes in a filthy storeroom to find something which is scratched to buggery and is probably on 78 RPM anyway - well - you make the choice.
I'm an old fart who should probably be complaining about "new-fangled technology", but folks, the one resource which is not renewable for we puny humans is TIME. As far as I'm concerned, the internet rules, OK.
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