Temptations, PlanetM and Music World are poor examples what a music store can be. They have totally stopped music cassettes. It is true that 90% of buyers want CDs. These buyers have a choice of road side sellers. Still 10% want cassettes but these repeat buyers who look for these only in stores such as these. You go there and you see dumb faces that tell you that they dont have stock of cassettes. Why would you go to Temptations / PlanetM / Music World to buy a CD when these are available on every road side and freely downloadable on net. Piracy is not an argument for a stop stoppi
When audio cassettes are stopped and CDs are the only option, then just why pay for them, THEIR ENTIRE STOCK CAN BE DOWNLOADED FOR FREE FROM THE INTERNET, these files come only from CD uploads.
When they argue about piracy, the problem is stoppage of cassettes. They have been forcing people with CD only choice without realizing that CDs are also getting uploaded into Internet, which did not happen when they stocked cassettes. These stores are totally responsible for piracy with complete stoppage of cassettes.
Music stores such as these should stock what a road-side seller would not - cassettes are one of them. But they all decided they are going to do the same things as platform sellers by going CD-only. You have a small market(Cassette buyers), but you have chose to cut them off totally. Now you pay the price - the price is free downloads instead of purchasing music.