On 5/21/12 4:11 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:17:15 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

Far better than being "Bain Capitaled" out
of business with the workers on the street.

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Yes, it's very important to try and put some sort of political spin on
this story.

The demise of record stores is sad in a way but inevitable.
Electronic distribution is the wave of the future and if the record
companies had been a little smarter about embracing that change
instead of fighting it, they would surely have managed the transition
a little more smoothly and maybe made some money from it.

One of the biggest record chains in our old area was Tower Records.
Tower was one of the first to stock a lot of CDs and in the beginning
was a good place to shop. Things went downhill rapidly after that
however, even before the advent of MP3s. The quality and quantity of
their sales staff and CD displays became atrociously bad.



1. It's not a political spin...it's how a decent, family run company is
being shut down gracefully, as opposed to how the Vulture Capitalists
like *Bain* do it.

2. We know it is inevitable that record/CD stores are shutting down
everywhere. We *had* some good independent stores in the DC area that
we've lost in the last 10 years. Same with many independent and chain
book stores. I used to buy a lot of books at the chain bookstore at the
Annapolis mall. That store closed about a year ago.