How Music Got Cheap • Breaking news: Record sales are down. In response, so are album price points. LA Times puts together a timeline of great moments in "the album's recent decline in value," starting with the FTC declaration in 2000 that "consumers had paid about $480MM more than they should have for CDs over the previous three years," and running up to present day, It's Up To You, No Really era. It's devolution, baby.
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I'm so glad music distribution is evolving. I can't wait to see what comes next.
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with rising oil prices and everything else,too, its nice to find deals like these :)
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its coming down to the fact that everyone is listening to music on blogs and burnt mp3's. people want that now, but eventually they will want hi fi again.....i hope.....dad?
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