Dan - we don't have good record shops where I'm from, we used to have a few but thats another story... and I don't like records all that much.
It used to be easier to cue a whole heap of random tracks off someones slsk collection, download (while doing something else) and preview later, altho these days I just go on the mp3 stores and buy tracks from there, guilt free and only the stuff I want... whichever way people do it, they won't buy it if its shit and thats what I think it all comes down to in the end...
I may be taking the piss and ranting on with my posts but I'm pretty sure that I represent a LOT of people when saying that shit, inlcuding a LOT of people on this board. It's just that nobody else has the balls to say it cus they're too busy licking their heroes' asses.
Happy New Year.