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My mid-sized Southern college town has one remaining used record store and one remaining used book store. Our last independent video store closed in December, and our Borders – which drove out our independent book and record stores – recently got a dose of its own medicine and closed amid a blaze of luridly florescent signage of the kind you associate with particularly tacky used car lots.

If the day comes when college towns don't have at least one independent book and at least one independent music store, then things really have gone to hell.

[Tublecane]

“If the day comes when college towns don’t have at least one independent book and at least one independent music store, then things really have gone to hell.”

Such judgements are based on pure prejudice, in my opinion. It will never touch the general population no matter how open and easy is it to collect and experience all the goods in the world. But what is replacing the independent book and music stores can easily make for better listened and read consumers. I personally much prefer Amazon to the used bookstore I used to frequent in college. I can get more bang for my buck and much better find what I’m looking for.