trustnon
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response 103 of 106:
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May 22 17:56 UTC 2004 |
I've pretty much given up on buying cd's now, most of the money goes to the
RIAA, so i just buy vinyl now, i've found it to be relatively cheaper than
cd's and u get better quality, now i have a large collection of vinyl, the
best part about it is that ure alloud to remix it as a dj.
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krj
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response 104 of 106:
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Nov 23 05:45 UTC 2004 |
The Borders store in downtown Ann Arbor just whacked the square-footage
devoted to CD by maybe 30-40%. Classical music got chopped by about
50%; the classical music room is now shared with jazz and a few
other things.
The stock was not pruned by that amount, as the shelving has been
replaced with new racks which store CDs all the way down to the
floor. This may use space more efficiently, but it means
that browsers have to drop down to their knees a lot. Some of
us are getting to an age where we don't really want to do that
just for shopping fun.
My initial reaction is that the CD area is a really unpleasant
space to be in now; I expect the time I
spend in idle CD browsing at Borders to cut way back.
But then, Borders and I have been falling out for a while.
Borders has been doing an increasingly poor job of stocking
the CDs I want, even when they are USA-distributed discs on
labels that Borders has historically stocked, and as a result
very little of my CD spending goes into Ann Arbor shops any more.
I think everything I have bought in the last three months came
from Internet mail order, or from a trip to Tower Records in
Manhattan.
In party, Richard reminded me that this was roughly what Virgin
Megastores did when they axed the classical room and cut the
world music section to expand DVD space.
((There's another piece to be written about the impending death
of the USA world music scene, but that's for another item.))
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krj
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response 106 of 106:
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Jan 12 03:10 UTC 2005 |
Underground Sounds, the small CD shop on Liberty in Ann Arbor,
has moved above ground. I haven't checked their stock in about
18 months; they seemed to be aiming for a younger customer than me.
Still, this is the first sign of growth in downtown CD retailing
in quite a few years.
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