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Today, nearly all the recorded music in the United States is purchased in record stores; home copying is but a small fraction. This will probably remain true for a long time, because record stores offer a place where a person can go to find a particular piece or to browse a wide selection. While this remains true, we can usually estimate the audience of a given piece fairly well by counting record sales.