{"id":14,"date":"2004-02-07T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-02-07T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T19:55:07","slug":"requiem_for_the_record_store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for the Record Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File sharing, online music sales and high cd prices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A20620-2004Feb6?language=printer\" TITLE=\"Washington Post link\">are taking their toll<\/a> on record stores. [Washington Post]<br \/>\nThe market for legally downloadable music is tiny today, but the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itunes.com.\" TITLE=\"Itunes Music Store\">Apple&#8217;s iTunes online music store<\/a> and the rush of rival services to the marketplace is expected to gobble up an ever-larger share of the pop music pie. A recent study by Forrester Research, which examines technology trends, predicts that in five years fully one-third of all music will be delivered through modems, and the CD itself will be passe, if not obsolete, in the years after. This isn&#8217;t necessarily bad news for the record labels, but it could be lethal for brick-and-mortar stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File sharing, online music sales and high cd prices are taking their toll on record stores. [Washington Post] The market for legally downloadable music is tiny today, but the success of Apple&#8217;s iTunes online music store and the rush of rival services to the marketplace is expected to gobble up an ever-larger share of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}