greetings from Portland

Very depressing to hear that one of Portland Oregons best record stores (am I showing my old age) is closing due to the web hold on the young demographic buying music on line. This store was named "Record Store of the year" many years in a row (for entire country-not just PDX)......The store really had a soul to it with cool people working there & live shows on weekends that were always free. Many top acts would do a set before playing large venues. The selection was terrific with many hard to find selections from Jazz -Rock-Classical you name it they had it. The good news is they will exist with their original location in Southeast Portland. the store is Music Millennium and they have a great web site if you want to check them out at www.musicmillennium.com
The point I would like to make is this....Our lives are being dis-connected by the ease of a click. I find it sad that many young people (in time) will most likely never experience the wonderful shopping time in a cool record store! Worse than this is not enjoying an afternoon at a independent bookseller which are also fading into the sunset. How sad is that? Well...now that I got that off my chest...Have a great day & BUY your tunes & reads from a LOCAL independent shop.....We need to support these people to keep the dream alive. Thanks for listening. Oh..and to close...a great book to get is "Water for Elephants" now out in soft-back. One of the best books I have read in years.
DR