No more cd stores???

[nrgbeat]

Do you think within the next ten years cd stores will go out of business and everyone will be downloading music off the internet?

[Bernie]

It appears that most forms of entertainment will be in the "on demand" realm. Perhaps even a membership type of deal where one can download as many tracks as they like for a set amount each month.

If this were the case then record companies could conceivably offer all those rare songs that would have been too expensive to press on CD. No more distributors and retailers (middlemen) so they would make out since they would get to keep more of the profit. We'll see what the future holds.

[sutnop]

I think
or I rather hope

that these free share programs
have made us the listners smarter and more intellectual when it comes to music

we have a taste for talent and not
for the plastic wrapping as most record companies try to put forward their biggest artists now

CD's will dissappear however
I think The Record Companies will start pressing music on DVD in presumbly even higher quality.

This will ensure them that the quality difference between an mp3 and a dvd track will be too large.....
so that they can keep on selling

I think the stores will vanish more and more
as peoples music tastes becomes more complex
the record stores have harder supplying them with the right records

Small boutique franchises with only_commercial Music will dissapear completley.
Altough the big stores that are like huge libaries will remain
as well as the second hand stores

or the music genre stores

I also beleive that there will
be an opening of a new type of stores
which are used for downloading

it will be like a Record Store but people come in and say what
artist and albumn they want
they pay the store a fee and give them an empty dvd

inexchange the store downloads high quality music songs for them of the Record Companies server.....
To open a chain franchise like this might be a million dollar success
for the person that has the right kind of money and adequate brains to invest

I think they will operate on a 7eleven basis
with a cafe like enviornment and the downloading stations might very will look like vending machines.....