Record Stores face extinction

[HairyScaryMark]

The finger does tend to get pointed at illegal downloading of mp3s.

This may or may not be relevant but we must not forget that people are ordering CD's off the internet, downloading from Itunes, listening to music on myspace and spending hours watching (music) videos on YouTube. On top of that people often have 900 channels of TV, a playstation, x box and a mobile phone that can do most of the above things.

To a lot of people, music is just another activity that competes for space in the day alongside the above mentioned things.

Record shops are likely to face a hard time and the only way for them to survive is to adapt, sell more DVD's, expand internet sales and downloads.