Frogman, were you familiar with "Sonny Cris"? That CD I had by him was purchased a long time ago at a real nice place where you could review CD's on headphones, buy books of all kinds, or have a glass of wine. It's too bad we don't have places like that anymore; there are a lot of reasons for that.
We, the citizens, don't realize that some things that go wrong in our society are because we don't look into the reasons why they went wrong.
Any thread, every thread, is a good one to discuss things of this nature. I don't believe audiophiles have any idea of how many things have gone wrong in the last 20 years that should not have gone wrong; I do.