The combination of free and legal music, streaming music, and increasing mobile bandwidth has caused increased competition in the consumer music market. In my humble opinion, the $12 to $18 cd has been replaced with unlimited legal music for cheap to free. Also recording technology has decreased in price and increasing options for self recording. This change in self recording options has greatly increased the amount of indi music on the web. It is so easy to record your own album, I have made 2 so far this year.
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The combination of free and legal music, streaming music, and increasing mobile bandwidth has caused increased competition in the consumer music market. In my humble opinion, the $12 to $18 cd has been replaced with unlimited legal music for cheap to free. Also recording technology has decreased in price and increasing options for self recording. This change in self recording options has greatly increased the amount of indi music on the web. It is so easy to record your own album, I have made 2 so far this year. http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/84829 http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/87181