Sunday, August 7, 2022

MUSIC: Winnipeg Free Press: CD Plus Hit's Last Track, Peak In Year 2000

By: Jason Mackenzie - Internet Blogger & Death Metal Band

http://www.internetnews.press

Closed since this 2011 article CD Plus predicts that in the future all music will be sold digitally only, however long time fans and University Professor disagree saying that there will always be vinyl and collectable stores.

Sorry Professor, they meant in the infinite future..when the digital file just loads directly into the human brain.

Today, it's Digital & Collectable.

Says the peak of CD Plus was in 2000 the year before I went away to University ...with the big Mayhem and Black Metal release was part of then.

Anyway, now I'm on Digital...and buy shirts on the Smart Phone etc. on my blogosphere pages.

"Collapse - Destroying By Design" came out with "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City" at CD Plus / Urban Sound Exchange back then in 2006...and was on the way into the store.

Then falling from 133 stores at the main stream release of Mayhem to just 33 stores as music switched to Digital, I went away to school and came back and bought the old names and restarted.

CD Plus closed and became eOne and now it's owned by Hasbro.

For a good retail location the original Urban Sound Exchange they said was on Main Street at the Mic Mac Mall in my neighborhood before relocating to Halifax Pizza Corner on Main Street.

So I'm continuing on www.urbansoundexchange.com , www.aandarecords.com and www.record.singles with my store and label that was carrying Collapse on CD Plus when the old label closed www.gwnrecords.com that I just restarted to do the "domestic release" albums for shopping carts like old Cdplus.com that are closed today.

After the closure of Great White North Records in 2006.... CD Plus became ROW ENTERTAINMENT and then EONE (DEATH ROW RECORDS HALIFAX) and was bought by Hasbro.