snarlydwarf;487528 Wrote: > > The CD sales problem is that most music today has at most 2 "hot" (not > good necessarily, just selling well) tracks on an album, so picking and > choosing them from iTMS or Amazon or wherever is more cost effective: > why spend $10 to $20 on a CD when $2 will get the songs that suck less? > > Of course RIAA hasn't figured this out... if you make an album worth > buying the whole album then there would be less picking and choosing the > singles off it. CD sales may still suck but -album- sales via physical > and download would go up.
I kind of agree - and it's increasingly rare to find such albums (but they are out there). I think Pat's right. The future really is download. Bring back the Dave Clark Five: "I'm in pieces, bits and pieces" -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71619 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
