Moreover, there are many fewer CD retail stores, and this is also a domino effect of the whole collective environment that everyone is working in.
On the whole, my constituency prefers to purchase their music in CD form because they like to sit with the liner notes and so on. That's not to say that some of them don't download legally as well, and perhaps some illegally, as I pointed out. I think that an incredible food chain exists here. Once the environment is not established and protected from an economic standpoint, a lot of these players, whether retailers or studios or others, start falling away.
The people who phone my office--the 1-800 number--say, “We used to have a Sam the Record Man in our neighbourhood”, or, if they're calling from the States, Tower Records. They don't exist anymore, and entities such as Amazon have come in to fill the gap.