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Unit five.

Vocabulary in context.

Economics.

The end of an era?

Yesterday the world's biggest music shop closed its doors to customers for the last time. Just a decade ago, record stores were incredibly popular. They were meeting places for teenagers and even if you couldn't afford to buy a CD, you could browse the shelves or just hang out.

The demand for CDs among young people was very strong. But some people say that the big record companies were only interested in turnover, were too greedy and weren't perceptive enough to see what was coming.

When the digital revolution happened, people's expectations changed. Suddenly it was easier for teenagers to swap music on MP3 files or buy it online. Internet music sales were much more profitable than record stores because they had no running costs like paying employees.

Going to the shops became too inconvenient and too expensive, with the result that some teenagers today have never even purchased a CD.

This is probably why, despite the fact that the last CDs in the shop in New York yesterday had been discounted by up to eighty percent, few of the bargain hunters were under twenty.