http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/music+retailers PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1136 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1136 <span class="medium-normal">This article makes note of the decline in&nbsp;US&nbsp;CD sales&nbsp;in the past four years and highlights figures released by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The decline is attributed to&nbsp;Internet downloading because it has dramatically changed the way music is&nbsp;obtained and sold.&nbsp;In addition to acknowledging legal downloading the article spends time discussing illegal downloading of music through peer-to-peer file sharing systems.&nbsp; Also there is a discussion of the &quot;big box stores&quot; such&nbsp;as Best Buy and Wal-Mart that serve as the most successful&nbsp;music retailers presently.</span> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1142 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1142 Tower&nbsp;Records is&nbsp;the&nbsp;music&nbsp;store with the most&nbsp;street buzz and star power.&nbsp; It is able to call&nbsp;upon the biggest stars to do in-house performances for album oremiers, yet still this power-house retailer&nbsp;has not been able to escape thewrath of the music download.&nbsp;The article attributes the universal death of the record store to :&quot;decreasing CD sales, the hit from online downloads, and growing competition from the likes of Amazon.com, as well as discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target...&quot;