Spitball Army

“If I can make it here, I’ll make it anywhere.”

So goes the line from the well-worn song “New York, New York.”  And, apparently, the inverse rule also applies.  The last of the giant music retail stores in New York City shuttered completely yesterday, according to this morning’s New York Times.  No more road trips to the City to find a copy of the Bee Gees’ Cucumber Castle sitting on the shelves, ripe for plucking and purchasing, or 15 choices of an early Shostakovich string quartet, or an Ernst Lubitsch DVD, or even – gasp! – a full stock of the Beatles catalogue.  It is hard to imagine any music retail store surviving when the most heavily-trafficked one in the country finds it impossible to stay open.  As goes New York, so goes the rest of the country…?

Read the entire article here.

Meanwhile, you will still be able to find a Miley Cyrus CD at every nation-wide grocery store and convenience market.