Hey, everybody, Norm Isaacs of Norman’s Sound and Vision is having a hard time of it. It seems that his West Village record store just isn’t bringing in the kids. There’s a good reason for that, but poor Norm won’t find it in the recent Sunday’s New York Times article about his plight. According to “The Graying of the Record Store,” Norman’s Sound and Vision is learning that kids no longer care about buying CDs. The article drones on for a while about how downloads have cut into CD sales, and how the independent stores—and the major retailers—are suffering. There’s some truth to that. It’s been six years since we first heard a kid complaining about the clacking sound that CDs make in the racks.

That’s when we knew downloads would do some major damage. We’ve lost some good indie stores, too. Norman’s Sound and Vision, however has a much bigger problem. Boy reporter Alex Williams takes 20 paragraphs before he stumbles onto Norm’s real problem: “[D]iversification is not always an option for smaller stores with little extra space, like Norman’s Mr. Isaac’s continued survival is due in part to a side business he runs selling used CD’s on Amazon and eBay. He buys them from walk-in customers who are often dumping entire collections.”

Correction: Norman’s imminent demise is due to the side business he runs selling used CDs on Amazon and eBay. In fact, Norm’s was one of the first NYC stores to raise the prices on all his CDs once he realized that he could run dual stores. There was a time when you could walk into a Village record store and pay a slightly higher price for an out-of-print CD. Thanks to guys like Norm, you’re now paying three times the price—if they even put the CD out for sale.