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Re: He has a Good point. said by Scatcatpdx: Furthermore, illegal downloading had devastated the independent record store. Today it is either ITunes or Best Buy for recordings and if you are lucky as in here in Portland Oregon, we have a single Independent and the only store selling classical music. No, the Best Buys and Wal-Marts have killed the independent record store. They sold for less than the indies could and bought in more volume. Plus, you didn't have to make a special trip. Might as well lump in Amazon and all the other online retailers that handle CDs too.
The decline of the independent record stores started long before anybody heard of Napster, and long before broadband was widespread.
AFAIC, the only decent act you mentioned as "Superstars" is the Stones. I've never liked Janet Jackson or U2 and have always changed the station if they were played on the radio. |
| Yep. The big chains grabbed all the customers looking for "mainstream" artists, since they could buy a CD while they were in there getting shoes, toilet paper, and mops. This left the indie stores only the people looking for more obscure artists not carried by the mass-market stores. That might have kept them afloat had it not been for online sales, since those sites could sell to the whole world and aggregate all those niche customers, getting product to them just as fast as the local stores could order it, at a lower cost. |
