Best ever value for grown-up music buyers

The way you read it in the press, music retailing is all bad news at the moment - those High St shops which have survived the triple onslaught of downloading, Internet retailing, and supermarket discounting (and many haven’t) – are having to cut prices still further.

From where I stand, this is excellent news. It’s a jungle out there, and there are phenomenal bargains about.

Recent purchases include:

* The Very Best of Elvis Costello 2CD, £3.97 at Woolworths

* The Hour Of Bewilderbeast, by Badly Drawn Boy, £6.99 at Borders

* Leaders Of The Free World, by Elbow, £3 at Fopp.

Total: under £14. Ten years ago that lot would have cost me £40-50.

Viva competition!


Gerry Smith