U.S. Record Stores Get No Satisfaction from Rolling Stones
The British band snubbed U.S. record stores late last week by anointing mass market electronics chain Best Buy Co. Inc. as the only seller of its new DVD, "Four Flicks," for four months, and independent record store owners are seething.
"The more that a mass merchant like Best Buy ends up having an exclusive, the more it hurts these pure-play record stores," Benson said. "Those stores are the ones where people are really getting turned onto new stuff, not the mass merchants."
Benson said over 1,100 chain and independent record stores have closed in 2003, making it hard for consumers to stumble upon the new music that is the industry's lifeblood and future.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=18&u=/nm/leisure_rollingstones_dcThis is not an entertainment story, please do not move it to the lounge.
The point of this story is that independent music stores are going out of business in record numbers and it's only going to get worse. Clear Channel owns most of radio and it won't be long before a couple of companies own all of the record stores.
This is the direction that American, and the world, are going in. Everything will be controlled by a few companies who will decide what music, literature, and art the masses will have access to.
At least we have the Internet, for now.
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