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Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise

Supplying yet more evidence, if more were needed, of the dire straits the music business increasingly finds itself in — reader cphilo sends us a NYTimes article about the death of the album as the mainstay of profit, and the record labels' struggle to adopt to the new realities. The article notes the trend of the labels signing artists for a single song, maybe two, and a ring tone.

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  1. Write your representatives! by ismism · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Even a Republican must see how wrong using unfair taxes to suppress competition is and how the recording industry must be stopped.