For centuries, music stores have been around. However, many music stores are finding it hard to survive with many music stores being online and new technology developing. Some record companies are trying to compete against the online music market by creating a “Record Store Day”. This is a day devoted to record stores. Saturday has been the chosen day for many stores (King, 2009).
It is hard to believe that many music stores are closing, because of the Internet. However, the Internet does allow people to search for the best prices for a CD and find CDs that might have been hard to find, before. Further, the Internet is quicker and easier to use. Traditionally, we would have gone store to store by foot, however, the Internet allows us to do everything from home. This is great for consumers, but bad for music stores.
Further, in 2008, CD sales fell, because I-tunes has become the biggest music retailer in the USA (King, 2009). I-tunes must be popular among young Americans. I have never used I-tunes and I am still using our traditional CDs. Therefore, I do not know much about this new technology, called I-tunes. Can anyone tell me about I-tunes and how different and convenient is I-tunes compared to traditional CDs?
It is surprising that there are only two thousand independent record stores left in the United States (King, 2009). It seems that CDs will be obsolete soon. So, we all better get on the bandwagon and start using this new technology called, I-tunes, unless, we will miss out, on our favorite songs and artists. Further, we better start honoring our record stores, unless we will loose them all. So, we need to visit and buy from our local record stores to keep some of them alive.
Reference
King, D. (2009). Record Store Day. WHEC.com. Retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S886003.shtml?cat=566
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I can remember going to the Five & Dime to purchase 45's. I also saw the 8-track come and go as did the cassett. It is safer to purchase music digitally as you do not have to worry about the format changes. I think the introduction of the super grocery store selling media has also hurt the speciality retailers. Good post!
ReplyDeleteGreat Comment!Record stores are certainly not what were, but they will not dissapear completely. This is a great example of how something moves from popula culture to elite culture.
ReplyDeleteRecords, and record players were once the popular culture standard for music. There are places to buy them but it is now more an area of interest to a specialized, educated follower of the technology. It is said that the sound quality cannot be matched, but too many people don't really care. (I have a tube radio and crank up record player with steal needles that both still work!).