Music Box

Music Box, is what I consider to be the nearest offline equivalent that we have to the much-praised CDWOW.com. It's resemblances are very striking, for instance most of the time, the CD prices are low, and are based at around £11.99 when at their full-price, but for much of the time they have 'special offers' in place where every CD (excluding doubles) retails for £9.99 (or £9.75 as is the case in my local Music Box at the moment). Another resemblance to CDWOW is that the stock of CD's carried by Music Box is somewhat limited, and mainly consists of chart releases or CDs that have been released in the past couple of months. When comparing this ...

The seemingly ever-growing Music Box chain seem to specialise in occupying retail units the size of janitor's closets, and hence their stock ranges are limited to say the least. They're good for picking up new release/chart CD's therefore, but are a bit useless for anything aside from this. About a year or so ago all their stock used to be £9.99 or less, making it the best place to get new CD's from without question, however they seemed to have crept up to £11.99 recently (in my local store at least) so there's not much to distinguish it from the rest of the High Street crowd, especially now V.Shop (Our Price for the traditional fans) appear ...

Yeah! That's the reply I got when I went in the "Music Box" store in St Helens, Merseyside. I was replacing some tapes I had, for cd's, and after all, they were selling some of their cds at £10 (Not all of them like some would have you belive, some non chart cd's were £15) Anyways...I asked "Do you have Ride the lightening on cd, cos' I can't see it out here??" My repy; "What???? Who does that???!" Even though this is a classic album, I told her "Metallica" Her even dumber reply "WHO??!!" Oh my god! Is it just me, but, aren't ...