I still use HMV.. (I was in there last week)
However, I think the last
CD I bought was These People by Richard Ashcroft in 2016.
Have bought some vinyl albums though (and choked as I paid the money)
Aside my vinyl and CD collection, I use Amazon music for streaming and I generally buy music that way these days. I used to spend hours with my records and tapes making mix tapes and I still do this now on Amazon with playlists, only it's a lot quicker and no annoying cassette tape spoilage or technical issues with CD burning. What happens now is the internet conks out.
I played the
Stranger Things music playlist yesterday (air drums for Master of Puppets, obvs) and it was excellent. Five hours worth of music. It's convenient, but there is still something special about going to a record store and handling albums..
Go back further to the 70s and 80s (when a new album was under a fiver) and it was a treat for me to go the the record store with my dad. And they
only sold records and tapes.. (and maybe a few badges and patches)
I've just seen that HMV is flogging The Clash's
Combat Rock album (green disc) for the 40th anniversary so that's going on my wish list. (Forty years though? I feel ancient now)
Combat Rock was the album that was playing (loudly) in 82 when my mother booted open the bedroom door with her fluffy mule slipper; she marched in and unceremoniously removed The Clash mid-song - into the sleeve it went, and out through the window. The song was
Should I Stay or Should I go (I guess the answer was 'Go')
To be fair to my mum, I had a habit of playing my music at ear-splitting levels (it's no wonder I'm now hard of hearing) and in 82 she was going toe-to-toe with the menopause.
Apparently, she'd been shouting up the stairs (for ages) for me to turn the volume down as she couldn't hear Terry Wogan (or whatever dude was on Radio 2) over my music..
However, The Clash were a punk band so the record was naturally as hard as they were. Clash don't do flimsy, so
Combat Rock survived with minimal damage (but I taped the bugger just in case Mum's hormone imbalance got the better of her again)
Should I Stay or Should I Go is on the soundtrack to my life playlist and I always think of my mum when I hear it.