A Bleak Future For Physical Media Purchases?

KevReedUK writes "The folks at ZDNet are eulogising over the upcoming death of physical media music sales. They refer to the noticeable drop in physical sales of albums whilst digital sales continue climbing (albeit at a reduced rate). Their central argument is that 'the music industry was pillaged by piracy and competition from other forms of entertainment such as video games ... [2007] marked the lowest tally and the steepest decline since Nielsen began publishing estimates based on point-of-sales data in 1993, a Nielsen representative said. The peak year in that time was 2000, when sales reached 785 million units.'"

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it's the music

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Did it occur to them, by any chance, that instead of the decades of great music the preceded this one, nowadys "music" is just competely empty crap sung by ex-Micky Mouse club tools like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake or else "hip hop musicians" whose "songs" bear no resemblance whatsoever to actual real hip hop and basically are just excuses for video of people driving around idiotic cars with idiotically large chrome "rims" talking about how "hard" they are or whatever ad nauseum.

The reason people aren't buying music anymore is that all the record industry does is hold on to pathetic and artless derivatives of a genres that peaked decades ago. Are there any groups like The Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, The Doors, basically any good "rock" acts in mainstream channel at all anymore?

That's the obvious difference between now and years prior -- the record industry doesn't have a damn product. They have shit to sell.