I actually did a semester's worth of presentations for a public speaking class about my local indie record store last year on this same subject. And what do you know, less than nine months later they close their doors.
I advocated for something that my classmates weren't willing to do (visit the store instead of iTunes once in a while), but it's obvious public awareness isn't going to change a thing. The RIAA really needs to do something about this or the retail music industry is going to end up the same way it was eighty years ago.
I.e. nonexistent.
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