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Originally posted by Borderstone:
Now practically all the places that i bought music long ago are disappearing and it's so depressing. I can only blame the modern innovations of Ipod & music downloading. 
Something I may neevr take part in.
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B, I agree that MP3 players and downloading have contributed to the demise of "record stores" but that's not the total blame. I don't own an MP3 player, nor do I download and I haven't stepped foot in a record store (a store that sells only music) in years - yet my musical library continues to expand by leaps and bounds.
I think the other major contributor is the convenience and greater availability of online shopping. It's been ages since I bought music at a store - I just order CDs from Amazon and they're delivered within two days.
I feel bad that folks are losing jobs and I feel for folks such as yourself who will miss them, but I don't think I'll miss wasting time in traffic, finding a place to park, roaming around forever just trying to find what I'm looking for and getting no help from the teenage clerk who only bothers to educate themself on the music they are interested in, so can't help you find anything that doesn't fall into that category (is anyone else old enough to remember the days when clerks knew every onch of their store and could help you quickly find whatever you were searching for?)