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Is the CD Becoming Obsolete?

Posted by kdawson on from the fading-into-the-long-tail dept.

mrnomas writes "What's to blame for the declining CD sales? Is it that manufacturers are putting out more and more 'safe' (read: crap) music while independent musicians are releasing online? Is it because iTunes is now the third largest music retailer in the country? Or is it just that CDs are becoming obsolete?" Quoting: "Forbes.com [ran] an article showing that CD sales are expected to be down 20% in 2008 (slightly higher than the 15% drop initially predicted). Why such a drop? What's truly happening is a gradual shift away from physical media to downloadable formats. What this indicates, so far, is that US sales of digital music will be growing at an estimated rate of 28% in 2008, however physical sales will drop even further, resulting in a net overall decline.""

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  1. Re:Speaking for myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Another lame "Save the poor artists" justification for piracy.

    It's likely you pirate your music because even if you buy digitally delivered content, the money still goes to the record companies so piracy is the only choice available to you since you believe in this retarded argument about how artists need you to defend them and how none of them are happy. Whatever....

  2. Don't follow that link: GOATSE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    'nuff said. Mod parent down

  3. Re:I Still Buy CDs by hyfe · · Score: 0, Troll

    . I just bought like 5 CDs today.
    Sorry, I'm foreign. What does that sentence really mean? Did you buy the equivalent of 5 CD's? Did you buy around 5 CD's? Seriously, what does it mean?

    Oh, and why isn't British thaught as a foreign language in the US? It'd do you good!

    regards
    A Random Norwegian

    --
    "" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
  4. Re:Are you honestly claiming... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Actually, yes. I can. Last time I had my hearing tested, I heard frequencies up to 24.5kHz."

    Liar. This is an obvious lie for so many reasons, I can't believe you'd be so stupid as to think you'd get away with it liar.

    How fucking said is your life that you'd lie about something so small and irrelevant?

    You're a loser.

  5. Re:The lossless myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's nothing in compressed music that makes it inherently inferior to lossless.
    Jesus Christ, you're a fucking moron. They REMOVE DATA to achieve compression, that's why they're inferior. Let's see you change your lossy files to another format. Moron.