{"id":415,"date":"2007-04-07T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-04-07T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:33:35","slug":"what-happened-to-the-music-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/07\/what-happened-to-the-music-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the music stores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good New York Times article about the bad moves made by record labels and the RIAA which hastened the demise of the music store: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/05\/opinion\/05sachsnunziato.html?ei=5090&#038;en=4e2f9295623fb736&#038;ex=1333425600&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Spinning Into Oblivion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc. And today it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not just record stores that are in trouble, but the labels themselves, now belatedly embracing the Internet revolution without having quite figured out how to make it pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverplatters.com\/\">Silver Platters<\/a> here.  They seem to have figured out how to be profitable in Seattle and are even expanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good New York Times article about the bad moves made by record labels and the RIAA which hastened the demise of the music store: Spinning Into Oblivion A quote: The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}