{"id":1986,"date":"2011-10-25T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:05:00","slug":"cardiff-music-stores-voxpop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/25\/cardiff-music-stores-voxpop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff music stores: voxpop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Record shops respond to the needs of a download generation<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2088\" title=\"voxpop7\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2088\" title=\"voxpop7\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/voxpop7-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis Welch, 22, shop assistant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The rise in music downloads has forced many high street record shops to close down, but one Cardiff store is refusing to go quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next month Catapult Records relocates to a new, larger store, where they will host the first in a series of industry led classes, introducing the latest in digital music technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The store, which was once a haven for vinyl purists, has been forced to embrace MP3 technology to cater for music consumers in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI buy mine [music] from itunes, all MP3 downloads,\u201d said Lewis Welch, a 22 year old shop assistant form Cardiff. \u201cI don\u2019t buy CDs any more really, apart from presents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally I download it from the internet.\u201d said Joe Travnicek, a 28 year old waiter, also from Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record shops respond to the needs of a download generation The rise in music downloads has forced many high street record shops to close down, but one Cardiff store is refusing to go quietly.\u00a0 Next month Catapult Records relocates to a new, larger store, where they will host the first in a series of industry led classes, introducing the latest in digital music technology.\u00a0 The store, which was once a haven for vinyl purists, has been forced to embrace MP3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[652],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-catapult-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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