Rumor has it that Sound Track, a CD shop on Seventh Avenue that has been there for umpteen years, is moving to Fifth Avenue. Is this undeniable proof that iTunes is pushing CD shops out of business OR is Brooklyn real estate becoming untenable for anything other than Real Estate offices?

Probably a little of both. I am guessing that Sound Track’s landlord is raising the rent to something ridiculous. I’m under the impression that Sound Track does a good business. But no business can succeed with an enormous overhead.

Now there’s only one CD shop on Seventh Avenue: Music Matters up near 14th Street.

Fifth Avenue has a couple of CD shops. There’s Somethin’ Else, a used CD and clothing shop and another used CD and record store, the one that has boxes and boxes of old LPs on the street, on Fifth near 9th. Still, Fifth Avenue needs a conventional CD place where music lovers of all kinds can get what they need. And the great thing about Sound Track is that they can order just about anything (in any genre) and have it the next day. The shop is very happy to do that for their customers.

Sound Track has been in Park Slope FOREVER. At one time they had a shop on 9th Street and Sixth Avenue, as well as a shop in Brooklyn Heights. Their’s is clearly a business that is prepared to change with the times.

The good news is Sound Track will still be around. On Fifth. Long live the local record (CD) shop.