If it wasn't for the internet, and now broadband, I don't know how the hell I'd get everything done. It's such a massive resource in my life and I really don't know how the hell I managed before I had it. As for records shops, it's a god send. I used to spend at least 2 days a week in record shops. Now I spend 0 days a week in them. I can get so much more done now and brouse through the track on a sound system I understand, rather than on headphones that the shop owner has purposely made crap so everything sounds good.
Long live the internet!!!!