TychoCelchu
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The amount of metal I see at Best Buy has started to dwindle. I haven't seen a new THE END RECORDS release there in a couple years.
The Best Buys around here are wastelands. I remember seeing Arcturus - the Sham Mirrors at Best Buy (in 2002) when it was released. Seems like a distant fantasy now. Last September, I tried to go get the Pantera Cowboys from Hell re-issue in its release week and they did not even have that! Pantera! And to think that less than a decade ago I was actually buying Allan Holdsworth from there.
I liked Norther quite a bit, but I stopped buying their albums after having three that all sounded the same (Dreams, Mirror, and Death). I remember buying Mirror of Madness from Media Play. Man, those days are gone.
We do have a couple of local chains and specialty shops where I live that are surviving. And the local FYE is still doing OK for some reason (it's in a good location).