Jay —

The little used CD store on Pico by NARAS just closed its doors. Finally. It felt like a junk shop the few times I went in there. The customers looked disreputable, the merchandise felt beat up and unwanted, the space was laid out as if the owners and staff didn’t care and had nothing to lose.

I wonder if that’s how comparable industries felt at the end? Did stores that sold piano rolls go that way? And before that, the places that sold sheet music for parlor jams…