The Death of Rythm and Blues

Bart’s CD Cellar in Boulder is closing.  Apparently it hasn’t been independently owned for awhile.  Whoever they were sold out so a chain and the chain is having bank problems.  Even though Bart’s remains profitable it couldn’t be saved or corporate couldn’t be bothered.

Barnes and Noble moved to its new “super store” but the CD section is maybe 20% of its non-super self.  (The department has been cut in half but is still kind of decent.)

There’s a lot that could be said about this and Don Pareles says a lot of it in today’s Times.  But I don’t see how anybody can earn a living in the music business – anywhere on the food chain.

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I just read this by Alex Ross.  More interesting than the Times and closer to the bone.  But I'm less optimistic than is he.