And even when you include digital song sales, ringtones, etc., sales are still down 9%, according to a recent research report.
Why do they say \"even when you include...\"? Those numbers should be included as a matter of course. It would be like saying, in the 80s, that vinyl LP sales plunged 20%, when there were offsetting CD sales. A 9% drop is significant, yes, but the article makes things seems a lot worse than they are.
To me, a more important shift is that a band on Merge can have the number 2 spot on Billboard\'s top 100 LPs.
Why do they say "even when you include..."? Those numbers should be included as a matter of course. It would be like saying, in the 80s, that vinyl LP sales plunged 20%, when there were offsetting CD sales. A 9% drop is significant, yes, but the article makes things seems a lot worse than they are.
Yeah. Well, it's the WSJ - maybe they just don't understand the kids these days. But isn't online sales still a tiny % of total music sales? (I have no idea what ringtones are.)
These days I probably get most of my music from eMusic or iTunes. I get the 90 songs per month deal (or whatever the max is) on eMusic. Lately I've been buying a fair amount of used CDs - replacing vinyl and tapes that I had in the '80s and '90s. But not too many new CDs. I guess I'm part of the "problem."
But isn\'t online sales still a tiny % of total music sales?
It depends how the WSJ is doing their math, but it seems like it\'s over 10% of total sales.
All right - who here is not buying music???
Me. At least, not since Tower Records went out of business. Because I still believe strongly in the physical CD, and Tower catered to tastes like mine far better than the remaining stores in my area do. And the one online place I've found that sells imports is too pricey to use regularly.
Like, ones you've already downloaded? Because I don't think it deletes them from your podcast list, and you can always copy them to another locale on your drive and then re-copy 'em back. When I've unsubbed/resubbed, it's left the podcasts I downloaded and then offered the new ones greyed-out above them to download when I resubbed.
Ah, I didn't realize. I'll do that in the future.
Also, I only go buy physical CDs every 3-4 months now, although I buy new music through emusic & itunes monthly.
I haven't bought a new CD in three years, easily. I don't even shop in the big deals, like Virigin or Tower, anymore. If I do go shopping, it is/will be for vinyl, and then only when I have a place to store it; or for rare/import/impossible to download CDs at used/rare record stores. But I download pretty much everything these days.
New 33 1/3 books: [link]
Let me just say: JOHN FUCKING DARNIELLE on Master of Reality! YEAH!
Free stuff!
From the WFMU blog:
My favorite musical finds on the big wide internet this week start with Keely Smith singing the Lennon & McCartney songbook. Instead of being just another Fab Four knock-off for a confused older generation, this is a truly great album of reinterpretations that turn the Beatles' songs into the classic lounge hits they always wanted to be. Way better than when McCartney tried a similar reinvention.
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Has links to three of the mp3s.
I downloaded the whole thing and just started listening to it. Cool so far.
You can download the whole album (in a zip file) here:
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Also from WFMU (same as the first link):
Lotti Golden's 1969 album Motor-Cycle is a psychedelic soul trip produced by Bob Crewe. Not yet on CD, it is certainly a crate digging masterpiece. My favorite track is "A Lot Like Lucifer", a sprawling epic that starts out soulful, turns ragtime, leads into a stomper, throws in some fuzz guitar, goes for the Memphis sound, and then tosses in the kitchen sink. Come to think of it, pretty much every song on this album is like that.
"A Lot Like Lucifer" is fun!
Aaron Sorkin(!) is writing a Broadway Musical based on the Flaming Lips\'
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
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Jon - You read my mind. I was just coming to post that. WTF???
This has to be the final sign of the end times, right?
