And in Brum too, Massive had a store there. Last time I went in though it was MASSIVELY overpriced, and totally empty. They tried to diversify too much imo, as opposed to staying true to one or two genres, they just churned a load of average music out.
Tempest Records in Brum is the only shop I'll shop from in person, even though they're a bit more expensive sometimes you just find those quality tunes more easily than you could ever find them online, so it's worth it. Last time I went in there I spent fucking £80 ¬_¬ Wanted to spend 3x that much, spent an hour just listening to tunes!
Whenever I have the cash, I check out
Kaizen
Intense (sign up and you get 10% off! Which almost covers VAT, so that's nice)
Juno sometimes
Redeye (another very good dubstep retailer)
I refuse to shop at Chemical or HTFR (especially HTFR), they're just way too expensive. Blackmarket (BMSoho now after their license to use the Blackmarket name ran out) is just plain boring, nothing particularly interesting about that shop at all - and they don't even seem to get in the latest stuff that fast either, at least from the web site.
Intense isn't too far away from where I live when I'm not at Uni either, so it's the closest and best thing to shopping locally for me