I only have two reasons to ever visit Norman, and now, with Hastings Entertainment closing, those reasons are cut exactly in half. What a sad loss to the community.
Chalk it up to a dying music industry, millennials who have no love for physical media or just a total lack of product worth purchasing, but as the numbers of records sold go down, so does the number of stores that sell them. We’re down to, what, about two or three record stores in the Metro (Guestroom, Trolley Shop and that ol’ stalwart Charlie’s Jazz—am I missing one?)? And, in five years’ time, who knows if they’ll even still be around.