Saturday, nothing better to do than buy some music, you would think so, right? Sheffield, big city, 5th biggest in England. The new Ryan Adams and Nick Lowe albums are calling my name. i've resisted the temptation to buy them all week on Amazon, prefering to support my local music vendors. But FOPP shut 5 weeks ago. No problem, i'll go to 'Meadowhell' and pick them up at either Virgin or HMV, simple task eh? But Meadowhell was flooded in the rains a few weeks ago and the music shops are all on the lower floors, and they are well and truly shut and boarded up undergoing refits. So i head back into town and go into HMV there instead. Except HMV in town only sells shit fit for kids and doesn't have either album in stock, in any format. Neither does the Virgin Megastore, hardly very mega then is it? And that's it, there is no independant record shop any more, hell even record collector doesn't actually sell records, let alone Cd's that aren't second hand. There is nowhere in the whole of Sheffield where i can buy either of these albums in any format the week after they were released. WTF?