Idolator

If you've recently opened a record store, and you didn't happen to pick up the assets of Tower Records in a bankruptcy auction, you probably ventured into the current big box/piracy-dominated music market not because of the financial security, but because your social and job-related skills don't lend themselves to much else. Bad news: Your dreams of escaping a forty-hour-a-week cubicle existence are over. Indie music retailers are shutting their doors—and not only because of a shrinking customer base, but because owning a store and having to show up every day is, apparently, a total bummer.
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