Media Play/Suncoast/Sam Goody all have the problem of being grossly overpriced.
Yeah. Even when I worked at Suncoast and got the employee discount, their wares were still more expensive than what I could find online. The normal retail markup on media is so high that the regular storefront model just isn't feasible anymore.
If, say, Down in the Valley were to go under, I'd mourn, but only because they have more local recordings than can easily be found online. Otherwise, I fully agree with wombat_socho's post above -- I wouldn't miss the non-corporate storefronts. These days, I can get better music recommendations for my personal tastes through pandora.com than through most music geeks.
While I don't want all media outlets to grow into pieces of corporate megastores, I do think the death of brick and mortar media specialty stores are going the way of the dinosaur. Hopefully, the mom-n-pop operations can figure out how to turn their physical stores into online ones and stay viable.
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Yeah. Even when I worked at Suncoast and got the employee discount, their wares were still more expensive than what I could find online. The normal retail markup on media is so high that the regular storefront model just isn't feasible anymore.
If, say, Down in the Valley were to go under, I'd mourn, but only because they have more local recordings than can easily be found online. Otherwise, I fully agree with wombat_socho's post above -- I wouldn't miss the non-corporate storefronts. These days, I can get better music recommendations for my personal tastes through pandora.com than through most music geeks.
While I don't want all media outlets to grow into pieces of corporate megastores, I do think the death of brick and mortar media specialty stores are going the way of the dinosaur. Hopefully, the mom-n-pop operations can figure out how to turn their physical stores into online ones and stay viable.