cdanteek Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 "Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent." Aticle More More Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ml Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 At the end of the article, it mentions that CD sales are still dropping. Frankly, I don't see why that should be a surprise. The teenagers that I know don't purchase CDs. All their music is downloaded from Napster or iTunes onto their mp3 players and/or computers where they listen to music while they surf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 As far as that goes, used CD shops I'm aware of have taken space from used CDs and given it to used DVDs, used game discs, LPs (I don't think those come "new" any more), CD-Rs, CD cases, t-shirts ... I think CDs have come and are in the process of going. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrewst Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 If the price of a cd wasn't ridiculous then maybe sales wouldn't slump.It's cheaper to go to iTunes,download the whole cd for $9.99 and burn it to a cd than it is to go to the store and pay 15 or 16 bucks for the same disc. True the quality may be a bit less but to most people it really isn't discernable,especially if you don't hear them in a comparative test. I used to buy cd's like crazy,I have probably 14 or 15 hundred of them.With the advent of downloading I can now get just the tunes I like for around 99 cents (or less) and not have to buy the rest of the stuff on the cd.You have to deal with DRM (or in EMI's case,not) but as we all know there are ways to use even those tunes with a little work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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