man do I miss Tower records and

I was in The missing Link store a couple of years ago; not to purchase but to see what my lp collection was worth. Not much to the store owner so I auctioned them off on Agon. The store was located in a small house in Broadripple, the "hip" part of town.
The vinyl resurgence among young people was in full bloom; my daughter was part of it. But it was just a fad for my daughter who stuck with the ipod. which is not just a fad. For my kids the ipod is the way to listen to music as vinyl was to me at there age.
Things change.

Audiomax Record Surplus is still open!!

Topless girls and a record store and beer might work fine

The real culprit is greed

Cd prices because of less overhead and costs should have gone done to $8.99 thereby beating iTunes

Napster should have been bought early on and turned into a monthly subscription for $20

Most CDs should be dual disc to give the masses video footage as a freebie to entice purchase. Dual disc option would be $10.99

Lp with dual disc for $19.99

Here is Los Angeles we still have SecondSpin, CD Trader (both on Ventura Blvd) and the awesome Amoeba records. But I do miss the 98% of CD/LP stores that are gone. But we have to get over it and move on. The old days ain't coming back. Record labels business model is over. The classic rock era is over. Brick N Mortar is over. CDs are over. Hey, if this economy keeps up - the #$%^ USA might be over soon.

Rhino Records demise in Westwood is sad (the store - not the label) - they supported live music - had lots of cool instore live shows - Ameoba still does. You can't get that on itunes.