Rock and roll will never die, but music stores do.
Plan 9 is closing their Harrisonburg store at the end of the month, according to the Daily News Record.
Compact discs were still king, and you could even still buy cassette tapes when the Richmond-based music store opened the Harrisonburg location in the mid-1990s.
Now digital music downloads have taken over, the iPod killed the Discman, and many local music stores are slowly going the way of the 8-track. Plan 9 closed their Lynchburg store in January.
The manager at the Harrisonburg store told the Daily News Record that the recession wasn’t to blame, but rather an increasing preference for downloading music online.
After the Harrisonburg store closes, Plan 9 will have four locations in Virginia and one in North Carolina, according to their website.
