No luck going to Waterloo today to celebrate but I did drop by earlier in the week before attending Owl City. Sure, physical music sales are down due to downloading yet I would say a huge factor is the wasteland of radio being a major contributor; how else will people discover new stuff? Not everybody has a great network of friends like I have who share my passion or more importantly, a couple people who work at a record store to help out!
Even if you couldn’t make it down there today, try to check out your local, dedicated record store in the next month. You don’t have to buy anything, maybe just reminisce about how fun it used to be until Sprawlmart and other Big Boxers slowly pushed them out of business. I need to catch that South Park episode again, I still laugh at the Wall Mart crapping as it dies; its real-life counterpart does nothing but distribute the same items from China.