Linda:

It probably isn't that much different then when a restaurant closes. It often happens when they want to spend more time with their families, etc. As far as music magazines go, there still are Sing Out and Dirty Linen. I may have been part of the problem here, as I only bought a couple of edition of this particular mag, but it may be another sign of the failing economy.

In the early 70's the top general interest mags, Life, Look and Saturday Evening Post, also had run their course. Yet two of the three eventually came back in different forms.

Jean:

I agree with you about not wanting to use the credit cards so much. Our addiction to them has created a situation which can be accurated termed as financial alcoholism. Am not that familiar with how it works, but PayPal is an alternative. And their is the debit card if you trust using it online. I think it's going to be hard for our society to break its credit card addiction. But the same was said about smoking, and never thought I'd see the day when smoke-free would be so heavily mandated. I believe your state was the first to do it.