I've got to design a music shop. What do people like or hate in music shops?
Any helpful contributions would be hugely appreciated.
Ta
- Reviews: * Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
- Reviews: * Gonga - Transmigration
- Features: * Sub Pop 20: the DiS review
- Features: * Discography reassessed: Bright Eyes in perspective
- Reviews: * One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion EP
- Reviews: * The Tupolev Ghost - The Alpha EP
- Reviews: * Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
- Features: * Lovebox 2008: the DiS review
- Reviews: * CSS - Donkey
- Reviews: * Quiet Village - Silent Movie
- Reviews: * Pentangle at Cardiff St Davids' Hall, Tue 01 Jul
- Reviews: * She & Him - Volume One
- Features: * Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks
- Features: * Benicassim 2008: the DiS review
- Reviews: * The National at Belfast Mandela Hall at Belfast University, Tue 08 Jul
- * Sparklehorse, Daniel Johnston @ Dublin Whelan's, 28/07
- * DiScover Sheffield @ Sheffield The Harley, 28/07
- * Club Fandango @ London Camden Dublin Castle, 29/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Dublin Whelan's, 30/07
- * Mirror! Mirror!, Dananananaykroyd @ Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire, 30/07
- * Mudhoney @ London Kentish Town Forum, 31/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Glasgow Nice N Sleazy's, 31/07
- * A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Leeds Upstairs at the Library, 1/08
- * The Chiara L's, Cuckoo's Nest, Real Feal, Docksud @ London The Wilmington, 1/08
- * Club AC30 @ London The Luminaire, 2/08
- * Ratatat @ Glasgow The Captain's Rest, 2/08
- * Brainlove Alldayer @ Leeds Brudenell Social Club, 2/08
- * The Mae Shi, Dananananaykroyd @ London Old Blue Last, 4/08
- * Jonquil, Left With Pictures, Gossamer Albatross @ London The Macbeth, 4/08
- * Catherine Anne Davies @ London Bush Hall, 7/08
- News: * DiScover Thee SPC: Sheffield, Monday
- News: * Metallica's Death Magnetic: new album's title explained
- News: * The Hold Steady: tour tickets on sale now
- News: * Stephen Malkmus: August live dates
- News: * The Warlocks make UK live return
- News: * Oberst streams entire new album on official site
- News: * The Wave Pictures: tour loads, release single
- News: * The Streets reveal October tour dates
- News: * Watch: the new video from The Futureheads
- News: * World record broken for number of samples used in one track?
- News: * Mystery Jets announce new single
- News: * The Acorn sign to Bella Union
- News: * JoFo and Dana joint tour: get tickets now
- News: * Lambchop announce new album details
- News: * Watch: the new video from Radiohead (and download in hi-res)
- Board_threads: * i'm after a very specific type of dubstep
- Board_threads: * what bands do you miss most?
- Board_threads: * Recommend me some more music...
- Board_threads: * Jug Of Ale, Market Tavern, Spotted Dog(?), and now the Flapper
- Board_threads: * George Benson
- Board_threads: * what's the most played song on your itunes?
- Board_threads: * jay reatard singles - amazon marketplace
- Board_threads: * The Metros
- Board_threads: * Nigel Kennedy
- Board_threads: * ipod earphones are a joke
- Board_threads: * Bluetip are reforming!
- Board_threads: * Ben & Jerry's Festival - This Sunday - Lemonheads/Ash
- Board_threads: * New Kingdom...
- Board_threads: * What's the median number of plays on your iTunes?
- Board_threads: * Overly-ambitious musical projects
Staff Contacts
|
RSS feeds 
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - High On Fire: "high on bloody everything"
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - High On Fire: "high on bloody everything"
Re: Music Shops
good - seperate sections which have been organised by someone smart enough to give a suitable categosiation (thus speeding up my cd finding experience) - hurrah steelwheels
Re: Music Shops
Also, I'd like to incorporate some sort of bar section with individual listening posts and stools. Pick a stack of records, put them on your listening post, buy a beer and relax while checking out some new stuff.
Re: Music Shops
I don't mean to be ungrateful, but FUCK OFF! I know how to shop for music you bastard!
Ahem. Also, remove the 'Q' section. File Quasimoto in the madlib section, 'q and not u' under 'U' and burn all the queen, queensrhyce and queen adrena CDs. Literally, burn them.
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
music, but not too loud please
yknow in HMV they have piles of books at the end of ailses.....how many times have I tripped over them?!?!
keep it alphabetical
yknow the poster racks, put them out the way so that the next time I shop in your shop, I dont get hit by some fucking by swinging the nekkid women posters into me.
Re: Music Shops
Cheers for the help everyone.
Re: Music Shops
Cheers for the help everyone.
Re: Music Shops
Love: Everything else although does anyone dislike coffee shops within record stores? SHOPS THAT KEEP IT SIMPLE. It'd be nice if you didn't have to go to the counter to check availability like in argos - you could check yourself.
Re: Music Shops
I went into a respected bristol record shop on monday and they didn't have the new ladytron album at all. Pathetic, I bought it from Fopp in the end.
Also a good selection or magasines available would be good. I need a good place to buy artrocker on a regular basis.
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
There's a record store in NY called The Cake Shop that has a record store element/a bar-cafe element that sells drinks and nibbles and a performance space downstairs. Perfect idea.
Re: Music Shops
They let me down with the new Ryan Adams....
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
They have put up their prices considerably in the last month or so though....
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
I once saw someone trying to buy Robbie Williams in there. The look on the staff members face was brilliant...
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Park Street is great. It used to be better when there were four record shops on it though.
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
I loved that shop so much. I tried to get a job there, but they said no.
Re: Music Shops
I now like Disc'n'tape on gloucester road
Re: Music Shops
Those HMV people with clip boards "may I help you" yes I agree feck off. Bad example of a record shop - Virgin Piccadilly. Can never find what I'm looking for. Do away with genres, seconded, apart from heavy metal, that section always has a strange smell, good to keep that separate. And file Kylie under K.
New releases should be that, not the hard-fi album. New releases from current week should be together and near the door. Vinyl section shouldn't be in a corner as an after thought and shouldn't be limited to dance 12".
Ergonomically / Architecturally speaking... um, never really thought about it. Soft lighting so you can flirt with the boy looking at your records. Decent flooring so I can wear silly shoes and not skid over. Flickable racks (oo er mrs). Computer stations customers can use to see if something's in stock and where it is (so you don't have to queue up to explain who the clash are). Enough space for two people to browse AND let the fat american get past to the coldplay records.
A must have: Snobby grumpy assistants. I hate this chirpy attitude they all have nowadays. I mean I doubt they'd even snigger if I asked for G4. If I want chirpy I'll go to a bird sanctuary.
Re: Music Shops
And don't get those silly shelves that let the front cd's fall out - every time i go to track in doncaster i manage to knock half their stock flying - feeling like a twat does not lead to a positive consumer experience.
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
Re: Music Shops
p.s. Fihiki is that a straw hat on your wall? Very impressive, i always thought I'd suit a hat.
Re: Music Shops
But still, FASCISTS!