With all due respect to the record stores and hipsters alike, iTunes is a hell of a lot easier and had a much wider selection than any record store I've ever seen.
You'd think with all this i-tune, etc. stuff, someone would market an inexpensive tube pre-amp to breath some life into these dessicated downloads.
Van, are you really going to deny that superior sound is simply impossible out of small, portable devices? Not at the moment, no. But I've got no doubt in my mind that it won't take long for the folks at various acoustic technology companies to reproduce awesome sound in a digital format. That's where the money's at, anyhow.