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Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson  All of the reports I've seen have originated from the crowd that invests in internet and tech stocks and stand to profit from that perception.
Yes we're in a time of massive transition and small stores have been getting clobbered for the past ten years. However as the big stores move on from selling music, a real opportunity is being created. What IS dead is selling the kinds of CDs that have become common over the past ten years however there's a whole world of other possibilities for packaged recordings. |
I would love it if this were the case. I remember when growing up there was a record shop where they gave guitar lessons, sold gear, and where I got to look, smell, and feel the inital releases of some band that my parents didn't like called "The Beatles". There were also people there that understood your tastes and would make some good suggestions on new music to check out. If you didn't know the name of a song you could hum a few bars or say part of the lyric and they would know. Sure it was a bit more work to get there, but once you did it was worth it.
Computer monitors and Ipods smell funny and feel the same from album to album.