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.

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I still like having the album

[derrith]

I went "legit" middle of last year and deleted all the music I had downloaded off the internet(somewhere around 20GBs of tunes). Since then, I've been buying up all the songs that I really thought were worth it to have. I'm in high school at the moment and not too large a budget, however, I've been able to find everything I want at none too expensive prices. I love the small record shops, there's this store in the village calle "heartbeat" and their prices are phenomenal in addition to having some really eclectic tunes. I'm still going to continue to buy albums, I am pure mac, however, I don't use the iTMS. The CD itself is more important, and it's only a few bucks more most of the time.