"Independent record stores are a vital source of the ever-changing cool. They respond to the street faster than the chains can. They help us telegraph to each other what's "now" and what's not, what we should be telling our friends and neighbors about, and what's about to take off, or, no longer hot. Musical trends are confirmed at the local independent record store, by you and me... Why would we want to do away with all that?" – Joe Satriani

Source: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/26/065755.php

You gotta' hand it to him... Hes 100% right! :P

plus thereslotsa copies of satriani live and you can find note disc!

Joe is very wise, to bad there are not too many independent stores left! The big chains are swallowing everything up, same things with guitar stores.

There were three small independant music shops in our town who stocked all sorts of imports and lesser known artists, one chain store took over one of them and the other two soon folded.