...I was NOT able to find a CD that I wanted in a store.

And the industry WONDERS why it's in the shape that it is?

I've been looking for the Faces' best of compilation: "Good Boys When They're Asleep" - which, as most know featured a pre-Stones Ron Wood and a before-he-sucked Rod Stewart. Surely Best Buy, Circuit City, or Barnes and Noble would carry a best of set by one of the most important rock bands ever, right?

Guess again.

The first thing I noticed after being in none of the above stores for a few months was how they DRASTICALLY cut back on the amount of CD's that they're carrying. Mostly flavor-of-the-month garbage and your typical best-of and catalog fare.

Now, I could have easily gone to my local indie chain which is right down the street from the above stores, but they can kiss my ass too. In this day and age, and with the economy and the music industry both in the gutter, they have the BALLS to charge list price for most of their stock. I'm sorry, but the days of me paying upwards of $18.99 for a single CD are long fucking gone. Not to mention that the "big box" stores are cheaper on the few new releases that I actually AM interested in, and they usually have some sort of bonus tracks. Indie stores are supposed to be the alternative to the major retailers, but they're just as bad, if not worse these days - and THEY wonder why THEY'RE going out of business too. Let's see, do I want to buy Chinese Democracy at my local indie for $18.99 and get a bare bones version, or go to Best Buy, pay MAYBE $11.99 tops on release day and get a bonus track or two? Gee - let me fucking think about that one.

For the first time, I'm seeing the death of the industry with my own eyes - I've been denying it to myself, but there's no looking back. The industry has killed itself, and while I may suffer a bit more, and not be able to find what I want in store (I just found the Faces CD on Amazon for $8 total ($5 + $3 shipping), this is long overdue for a bloated industry that is now reaping what it has sewn for way too long.

Live and Let Die, indeed.

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/boar … ic=52550.0

Surely our British members know of and hopefully love these guys - still ONE of the best bands that I've ever heard in my life, and it's a shame that they were never huge in the U.S. - as they should have been.

Amazing riffs, amazing hooks, amazing lyrics - amazing EVERYTHING. Ginger is a legend as far as I'm concerned.

Most of their b-sides and throw away tracks are better than most bands' a-sides, especially in today's rock scene. The amount of releases that these guys throw out there full of quality material is just mind-boggling. There's STILL stuff that I'm collecting because of some of it is just so hard to find. Going to pick up the new covers album once I get my credit cards paid off.

Any Americans who have never heard of these guys NEED to check them out one way or another - Ginger won't mind, really.