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Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-13 15:38:41 +0000

Now that the Music Specific Retail Stores Are All But Dead...

What's gonna happen next? After seeing Tower bite it and watching more and more folks go through Itunes / SLSK (or the p2p of yr choice) / podcasts, streaming internet, et. al, most record shops that aren't mom andpop with a specific niche seem to be done. Without a way to have a mass market to buy music in person in a format that you can actually hold in your hands and take home with you to be manually inserted into a player, I think you'll start seeing these ancillary businesses start getting more involved in selling music through their chains. I'm sure right now its more of the 'impulse' and / or, 'oh, while I'm here, I can also get some music' - but eventually would a mainstream audience say something like - I'm going to Starbucks to buy some music (not necessarily for an overpriced beverage in a (not -so) hip environment? Interesting (and scary)to think what is coming down the pike...

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-03-13 17:00:55 +0000

I remember about 4 months ago someone (now I forget who) telling me that they buy most of their music at Starbucks. A bit creepy, yes. However when I'm in Porter Square, I buy my coffee at a book store.

Posted by theduane on 2007-03-13 17:52:31 +0000

SO WHAT IF I BUY MY MUSIC AT STARBUCKS!?!? THEY MAKE THE BEST COFFEE THAT MY MONEY CAN BUY!!!!!!! THIS IS THE POST OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-03-13 17:53:56 +0000

THEDUANE: NOTHING BUT MODESTY.

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-03-13 17:58:28 +0000

NO, THIS IS!

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-13 18:08:28 +0000

Also, I didn't think of this when I started this thread, but Jackie likes lotions / creams /soaps / pj pants (aka girlie stuff) and during certain special occasions and holidays of the year I search some of these 'products' (TM) out at certain 'stores' (TM) These always have cds (Sting, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart - you get my drift?) That are avail. to customers that spend a certain threshold. This type of thing is probably also falling into some of the new strategies retail music sales are looking into.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-03-13 19:40:03 +0000

No, they don't.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-13 19:51:07 +0000

I love it - that's awesome.

Posted by Riotous Nutjob on 2007-03-13 20:20:45 +0000

When I was in Miami Beach I went to a Starbucks located in the Sony Music building where they sold a good number of CDs, and they had a pretty decent selection of jazz, classical, rock, international. Listening station, too. It makes sense. If I'm in the middle of a cup of coffee I'm about 3 times as likely to by a CD as without the coffee.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-13 20:26:45 +0000

I find the changing strategies to be interesting. I remember that when the 'Ken Burns Jazz' series ran on PBS there was a "Starbucks" (TM) cross promotion where you could get a booklet of all (or a lot of) the featured artists bios as well as a very small smattwering of their cds.

Posted by tgl on 2007-03-13 21:03:43 +0000

Um, iTunes and portable music players basically killed the CD. All physical music formats, really. Outside of specialty (mail order) shops. Call me a cold-hearted capitalist, but why do I care that Tower's business model is obsolete?

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-03-14 04:21:49 +0000

The ready availability of CD's has made me buy more vinyl than ever before.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-03-14 05:00:11 +0000

Yet used CDs are so cheap.

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-03-14 05:00:44 +0000

So are illegal file transfers.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-14 15:55:22 +0000

Cold Haearted Capitalist! Sorry - I was trying to make a qualifying statement : "in a format that you can actually hold in your hands and take home with you to be manually inserted into a player" My interest / concern in this thread is physical music that at some point you hold in your hand whether it by a cd or a record or tape or what have you. I am vaguely already aware of this thing called the internet and mp3/flac/aiff files :) Im not asking people to feel sympathy for the old model of retail music stores - I am just curious business wise what record companies are trying to do to help their non digitally adaptive customer base continue to send them money. It certainly wont be something that I will be doing, but that doesn't mean Im uninterested.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-14 15:56:41 +0000

Also, Paul Mccartney made a cd a year or so back, exclusively available @ Fidelity Investments (ahem).

Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-22 13:42:41 +0000

Paul McCartney's New Record Label = Starbucks

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