news.cnet.com — Digital music, long the bane of the music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about.For 2008, total music sales rose 10 percent to 1.51 billion units sold, up from 1.36 billion units the year before, according to industry tracker Niel
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4ndr01dJan 2, 2009
CD's suckVinyl Rulesstop believing marketing and Use Your Ears
m4tchstickm4nJan 2, 2009
I mix drum n bass and buy a lot of digital music. If you look in the right places you can get your music in the format you want. The main digital download store I use allows you to download tracks in .wav form for no extra cost, in fact you are allowed to download .wav .flac .mp3 and .ogg`s of any track you purchase. So I normally download a .wav for mixing and a .mp3 for my I-Pod all for the princely sum of £1.20
fuxjoeyJan 2, 2009
So music industry isn't dead yet.
mouskyJan 3, 2009
"Vinyl and Digital is where the real artists are"Ah, the good old "snobbery" view point. The pop in Pop Music stands for, wait for it, Popular. Seems that Popular music is winning out.
xeysJan 10, 2009
I have thought about the record vs cd thing for a bit, and I think I know why there is a resurgence of records, if even only slightly. Everyone knows a cd costs 10 cents a piece to replicate, and the prices are 15-25 bucks, depending on what it is. So, people download it instead. What a record offers is a real, tangible, hold-in-your-hand product with big artwork, and lyrics that are readable without squinting. You feel like you are getting something substantial for your money. But if cd prices were 5 bucks a pop, they would generate a ton of profits for the industry, because people would come back to it. I think that people look at both the cd and the record, and think, "If I'm spending 20 bucks, it's not gonna be on something I can download for free." The value of the songs themselves is in question now, since they are freely available on the internet through piracy and such. But you can't upload the experience of having big artwork, a big record, and the feeling that it is worth it, that it's substantial. I think many are rebelling at the... well, intangibility of music now. For what it's worth, that's what I think. I actually went to minidisc recently(netmd), and I like making my discs, making mixes, and flipping through them in my little case I made for it. Pretty tough to damage them, and I can rerecord whenever I want to. It's also nice to do a male to male plug and get stuff off whatever has an out(ie ipod, tv, dvd player, ps2, record player, etc). And this minidisc stuff is cheaper than an ipod, even new. Ebay sells brand new equipment for peanuts.
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