Record Stores: Live or Let Die?

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
More than 1,000 retailers and their loyal customers celebrated record-store culture last week. But music lovers who moved online years ago say physical stores are not worth saving. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on record stores. Later: Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian joins us to discuss her unconventional career.

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