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Sep
Long before Richard Branson became the latest billionaire with a reality TV show, before he started his cellphone company, his airline and his record label, he sold music from the Virgin Record Shop on Oxford Street in London. When he began in 1971, of course, music was presented as grooves pressed into a vinyl disk.
On Monday, Branson is introducing a new music store, VirginDigital.com, this time selling music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet. [more @ www.iht.com]
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