"Macintosh HD could not be repaired"... Do I need a new hard drive?

So my macbook pro when I turn it on goes straight to the apple screen like normal, then it just sits there and loads forever.
I then booted it with the Disk Utility and tried Verifying and Repairing the disk (I selected my hard drive). The repair couldn't be completed and it said that "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." I tried it a couple times with the same result.
Then I booted in Safe Mode and ran the "fsck -fy" in which I got a series of errors in response. The following is what I got back:
"Invalid leaf record count
(It should be 283 instead of 287)
**Checking catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
(4, 26092)
**Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
**The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired."
I did a little bit of research on similar problems and everything has said that the hard drive is crashed and that I will need a new one.
Suggestions said to clone the hard drive to hopefully not use the files but that ultimately I need to buy a new one from The Apple Store.
Does anyone have any input as to how I should go about fixing this, keeping the files, and maybe not having to buy a new hard drive? Or what do I need to do to go about having a running computer?

I don't believe that the evidence you have presented necessarily indicates a physical failue of the drive; neither does it disprove it. What we do know is that crucial data structures on the disk have been corrupted.
Ideally, you have a current backup of your data (could be via Time Machine, disk cloning software, and/or online backup; multiple backups would be even better). If so, try reformatting the drive (while booted from your recovery partition if your system is new enough or the disks that came with your older system), reinstalling the system, and restoring from the backup. That should suffice if there is no hardware problem and your backups were from before the corruption.
Let us know if that helps. If you need further assistance, please let us know the model and year of your MacBook Pro and the version of [Mac] OS X you have been running on it.

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