The Record Store Experience in the age of Digital Downloads

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Siddhartha Mitter
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

Saturday is Record Store Day, a day of events and promotions at independent record stores around the country and overseas. If you sense a hint of desperation it's because the rise of digital downloads has pushed a lot of record stores out of business. So what’s happened to the record store experience? WNYC’s Siddhartha Mitter went to find out.

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