Clicking your music, closes the doors for good!

So don't download this song
The record store's where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song

Weird Al Yankovic,
Don’t Download this song,
Straight outta Lynwood

First it was Sam the Record Man closing its doors, a victim to a changing dynamic in the music world, where the local record store had less and less importance in a customers daily life.

Today another Canadian music retailer has called it quits, the Music World chain announced that it is entering bankruptcy protection and closing the doors on its cross Canada empire.

The retail music industry has seen a steady decline in revenues with the surge in music downloaded off of the internet, whether through the retail services such as iTunes or through the less financially rewarding options of peer to peer file sharing.

While there is some talk that some of the chains stores may soon rise again in a smaller and redesigned format, the end of the local record store seems more and more closer each day.

Most communities have seen the stores that once sold the records, eight tracks, cassettes and CD’s as their main staple have long since moved into selling stereo equipment, televisions and satellite dishes, the music selection no longer as large as it once was, nor is it the key to their business plan.

Larger centres still have that one or two independent record stores around, the home of the second hand record, hard to find imports and in some cases the bootleg items for the serious investors.

But for the music fan, the need to learn how to search out your tunes and download then in a virus free environment is becoming a necessity. The music while forever available is now reduced to digital bytes, vinyl, tape and CD’s soon to be the museum pieces of a past generation.