+1 re sad news, although for physical media, my favourite shop for a couple of years has been Presto Music, admittedly limited in genre to Classical & (more recently?) Jazz. Presto have a great web site and just one physical store (although I’ve never visited it).

NB I generally only buy when offers are on (fairly frequent).

Paul

priorities: stereo music (primarily 'classical' / choral / opera)
boxes: various 500-series, DACs, G91 (+ non-M e.g. ELS-63)