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Can Record Stores Help Save Retail? The Record Store Comeback: Why We Still Want to Shop for Music
Episode Description
Remember when buying music meant spending an hour inside a record store, flipping through CDs, vinyl and cassettes, talking to employees and discovering your next favorite artist?
In this episode of Sorry, It’s Discontinued, Hilary explores the rise and fall—and surprising comeback—of record stores and physical music. From Sam Goody, Tower Records and the CD era to Napster, Spotify and streaming, we look at how the way we buy and discover music completely changed.
We’ll also talk about why Gen Z is rediscovering vinyl records and CDs, and how independent record stores…
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