Requiem For The Record Store

Rick Zeman writes "The Washington Post has an article (minimal registration required) in which record stores ('Daddy, what's a record?') are preparing for their own demises. They attribute this to the big box stores (Best Buy, etc), online retailers (Amazon, etc) and, you guessed it, downloading, both illegal and legal. 'The fat lady is warming up, but she's not exactly singing,' says one retailer, knowing that he still has a few more years until his business is totally moribund." Get it while it's hot -- soon, the Washington Post is switching to a more annoying registration system.

Comments

Re:no Virgins worth entering in the record store b

[Doc Ruby]

Come out, Anonymous troll Coward, and display your bizarre vendetta. Just because you are among many who are satisfied with the inadequacy of retail, doesn't mean I should accept it. Why are you afraid of the future? Or did I just make you see yourself as a fool in some other post, where you typed before you engaged your brain? Fragile Anonymous Coward, too afraid to even use a user ID, let alone add something useful to the discussion, for fear of being so wrong once again. I'd be sorry I hurt your feelings, if you acted like a person. Instead, you attempt to silence me with childish epithets like "over-condemning"? Try some substance, and I'll be willing to school you again. Or come correct, and join the adults in articulating a better way to live.

Re:no Virgins worth entering in the record store b

[Doc Ruby]

Stripped of your hyperbole, you got most of my experience right, although Qunicy Jones is actually one of the most popular artists ever, both in his own right and "beind the music" of most R&B hits of the past 40 years. Except for the part where the song wasn't on offer "right away" - there was no way to even backorder it, even when I had mastered their labyrinthine kiosk. The kids were nice enough, but didn't actually seem to know about the products they were selling off the shelves, evidenced by some wild goose chases to empty slots as tangential sales opportunites surfaced when Quincy Jones was unavailable. Their alphabet skills were about B- as we navigated the shelves, but their main skills seemed to be willingness to wear the uniform for minimum wage. I guess that's a benefit that music websites can't provide.

You're a funny person to read Slashdot, if you can't see the vast inferiority of my representative experience compared with either Internet music shopping, or "mom & pop & punk" music stores, where shopping is actually a social experience. Maybe you just read Slashdot to snipe at people who articulate a different view from yours. Maybe you like the pablum manufactured to satisfy your manufactured taste for a week. I hope you're happy with that "target" on your head. I prefer to be the hunter, rather than the hunted. But I savor my captured quarry for a while, I don't just kill and stuff it to show off how "cool" I am.