That is a problem with a lot of businesses-they start at point A and go on and on and never see that the world is changing around them that their business goes into the tank (yes Saint Marks Bookstore are you listening?). The owner of Sounds is a decent guy-perhaps he never saw how to move his business into viability as the times changed. As for Sounds, I used to stop in when I went to the Grass Roots. I am not so sure that the backward glance is truly in the the service of better musical sound. I remember the care one had to take with the diamond needle as one placed it down on the vinyl-how easily everything scratched. There are other blogs where one can wax on forever about the infinite better musical sound of vinyl and have the fight of your life with people who think the CD sound is superior. I, too, read the recent stories about vinyl. Yes everything posted here is true, the changing ways in which people listen to music and buy music. You can check out the other record stores in the neighborhood, including Good Records NYC. Soon, there won't be any record stores on St. You can read some history of Sounds via this HuffPost article from 2010.

Joe's CDs, 13 CDs, Venus Records, Mondo Kim's, Smash, Norman's, Rockit Scientist Records. Sounds joins the ranks of other CD/record shops that have closed on (or near) St.

There isn't any mention of the rent on the listing. The second-level retail space remains on the market. News of the impending closure first arrived in February 2014. The shop has been around longer than we expected. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

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