I heard Andrew Keen on NPR plugging his book about the End of Civilization As We Know It: “The Cult of the Amateur”. He said “If bookstores or newspapers or encyclopedias are road kill, then what kind of society is this.” I think we could add record stores to that list.

And if we’re going to wax nostalgic, I remember riding home from the record store in the back of the car clutching my 45 and reading the label over and over, desperately antipating that moment when I would drop the needle…