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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Monorail, is one of my favs, as you can have lunch there and a few beers afterwards!

    You're excluding Record Fayre, in the Merchant City. And you'd discount Rub-a-Dub at your peril, if like me, you love dance music, on 12" singles, or ambient and trance stuff - all of which you can listen to on T/Ts, through headphones, before buying!

    I'll compile a full list of all the independent record shops I know of in Glasgow after lunch.

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    Lol - how old are you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol... My comments were tongue-in-cheek, daftee!

    I admire you for using public transport, as it's the 'greener' option, and also if the services are efficient where you are, to facilitate convenient travelling, then that's good. Around here, they're not, and as such it would be a massive time-consuming faff and inconvenience for me to go anywhere, other than into Wrexham or Chester (as it's just one bus direct), if I didn't have a car.

    In and around Cardiff, where you are, as far as public transport is concerned, is a different world from here in Wrexham, where the infrastructure isn't anything like as good. We're much more 'disconnected', in that respect, which actually suits me just fine!

    Plus, I'm simply used to being able to go where I want, *when* I want, without relying on anyone else, and I detest queues of any description, or standing around waiting for buses or trains, so that's why I'm very much 'conditioned' to travelling by car. I just like the convenience and freedom it provides

    Marco.
    Great bus infrastructure in and around Swansea and being over 60 it's free, but I must admit I generally prefer getting in the car, I tend to get motion sickness. A useful backup though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmangler View Post
    As folk are bemoaning the woes of HMV, I wonder how much they've spent in HMV in just the last 12 months.
    Personally I have spent around £150.00 on CDs and LP records.

    I'm including stuff that I've bought from FOPP too, as they're owned by the same company.
    I've bought shedloads from Fopp (just spent £30 there, in fact). I didn't realise they were owned by HMV.

    Personally, I dislike shopping intensely, especially for clothes. Most blokes do, in my experience. I don't know what all the women who love shopping will do with themselves when all the shops have gone.

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    I visited yesterday as spent £100 on vinyl , RIP HMV
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    Quote Originally Posted by willbewill View Post
    Great bus infrastructure in and around Swansea and being over 60 it's free, but I must admit I generally prefer getting in the car, I tend to get motion sickness. A useful backup though.
    Nice one, Malcolm Enjoy it.. Like I said though, public transport is a different ball game in Wales, living around Cardiff and Swansea, compared with up north in Wrexham, where there are no such cities. However, I rather like it that way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    I've bought shedloads from Fopp (just spent £30 there, in fact). I didn't realise they were owned by HMV.

    Personally, I dislike shopping intensely, especially for clothes. Most blokes do, in my experience.
    Indeed, although personally I don't mind it that much. I don't do 'window shopping' though, or traipsing around busy town centres, going into all sorts of different clothes shops, trying stuff on, before buying it - no fucking chance

    I go directly to specific shops, where I know there'll be stuff I like (and I can park the car easily), buy it, then GTF, ASAP!

    However, I love shopping for things like records/Blu-rays, hi-fi gear, food & wine (in specialist shops), stuff for my car or nice things for the house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    I've bought shedloads from Fopp (just spent £30 there, in fact). I didn't realise they were owned by HMV.

    Personally, I dislike shopping intensely, especially for clothes. Most blokes do, in my experience. I don't know what all the women who love shopping will do with themselves when all the shops have gone.
    As long as they've got somewhere to meet up for a coffee and a good moan about men, they'll be ok.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Nice one, Malcolm Enjoy it.. Like I said though, public transport is a different ball game in Wales, living around Cardiff and Swansea, compared with up north in Wrexham, where there are no such cities. However, I rather like it that way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    As long as they've got somewhere to meet up for a coffee and a good moan about men, they'll be ok.
    Lol - it's so funny you should mention that, as women moaning about men is something that my wife always moans about, when she's in the company of other women!

    In all honesty, it's not something either of us do, as I've nothing to moan about, and neither has she

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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

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    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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