To be honest, it seems like purchasing CDs, real, tangible CDs, is a dying trend. People like iTunes (well, I don't). They're satisfied with hearing a song once or twice on Youtube, and not actually getting the hard copies of the music they like.
"Hey, wait! Weren't you the one who wrote an article on Grooveshark, an online tool for listening to music, just a couple weeks ago?"
Guilty as charged. I often hesitate to buy CDs, especially when I'm just exploring new artists, because I don't know if I'll ever want to listen to the music again after...
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There comes a point in the career of most musicians where someone will compile an unbelievable amount of stuff in a box and market it to the salivating masses for some outrageous price. And we, like idiots, will go and drop the money for material that has never been commercially available before, so we can show it off to other people.
This past week Columbia Records released a massive Miles Davis retrospective box set. It includes all 52 of the albums he recorded for Columbia on 70 CDs, the CDs are even designed to look like miniature vinyls, along with a...
“Why not London?” asked Caleb Followill to the sold out crowd during the June 30th show this past summer, and why not London? Considering England embraced these bearded Southern gents when their first album came out this is a thank you to the people that propelled them into the status they are in now. Nothing says thanks like filming a live DVD in front one of the biggest crowds they ever played, if you don’t count the Glastonbury Festival from the previous summer.
I saw the boys back in 2007 at the Orpheum in Boston, and not much has changed since...
I recently read about the amount of music stores closing across the country in Rolling Stone. It hadn’t struck me, until a few days ago, that F.Y.E. is the only national chain record store in operation, which is pretty depressing. I used to visit Record Town or Strawberries as a kid, I rarely went into Tower Records and I’ve never seen a Virgin Megastore. Is this a sign of the times? What is on the horizon as iPods begin to take over?
Borders is said to be cutting a percentage of their music and movie section, Wal-Mart might do the same. ...
With iTunes and online file sharing, it should be no surprise that the local record store may be a thing of the past. Going the way of the dodo bird, over 3,100 local music stores have closed in the U.S. since 2003 (according to Almighty Institute of Music Retail).
What is lost when these stores go is the local flavor that a record store provides not only to a neighborhood but also the local music community. The store staff and clientèle represent a collective knowledge base that you don't find on Walmart online music download.
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