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.