Earlier this year in Canada, all the HMV stores had closed down, so I thought that was officially it for music/movie stores. Best Buy and Walmart only have a very limited section so I figured it was amazon only from this point on. But in the last month a new store, called Sunrise Records, opened in select old HMV locations. It's pretty similar to HMV but they also carry quite a bit of vinyl.
Will they last? Hard to say, but it's nice to still have some type of music store around.
Big difference from 10-15 years ago when there were music stores every where. But everyone in this thread is old school like myself and likely just enjoyed the aspect of going into a music store and not nessasarily buying something, but just looking around and browsing. I have the same feelings with old video stores. I always enjoyed just going into a video store and look around; that's where I would learn about a lot of the new releases and find lots of older gems as well.
But thats old school mentality lol.