Ok so the thing that has got me thinking a lot these past few days is the closure of HMV stores, now I have never cared much for stories about the closure of big businesses and high street giants, but HMV, I care about this a lot, because as you probably well know, I could be described as being 'indie'... well my music taste definitely is, and if HMV ceases to exist, well it's going to be a sad day for all indie folk.
In my town we  have no record stores at all, we have the supermarkets, I have bought cds at supermarkets, but you have to rely heavily on them making it into the album chart in the first place... and hardly anything does, I have only ever bought albums by Kate Nash, Mark Ronson and Laura Marling in my local supermarket, but compare that to the 100+ albums I have had to buy elsewhere, it's really nothing at all.
Yes there is Amazon, and itunes, but seriously, itunes? Your whole music collection could be deleted in an instant! And Amazon really doesn't give you that pleasure of discovering something new which you didn't even know you wanted! There's nothing better than browsing through cd racks to find that cd you read about in that magazine, or the new record by your favourite band.... and well I love the sound cd cases make hahah
I know there are lot's of statistics and numbers about indie record labels relying on hmv for the majority of their physical sales, but I don't understand that stuff, so I couldn't possibly comment, all I know is that you should care about HMV because if you're into non chart music, we need HMV.

My mum once went into WH Smiths to buy a Cribs album for my birthday and they looked at her like she just killed a child and was wearing it on her head when she asked if they had it in stock.