Comments on Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas

• Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas
• Music sales tanked this Christmas, dropping 20 percent lower than last year’s level. Labels are looking to boost their digital sales numbers to compensate for the CD’s decline, even if that means dropping DRM.
  

  Nokia’s media maven has invited Apple to sell its iTunes Store content on Nokia’s Ovi web portal. We’ll be sitting by the window watching the pigs fly when that happens.

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  99.9% of Recorded Music has no monetary value. There’s a surplus supply of music online and will be into the future. The crime of “Digital Piracy” has no real underlying moral connection, despite what the RIAA says, it is not the same as stealing. Nobody feels bad after listening to a song they downloaded. The RIAA wants us to think of starving artists playing on street corners for change, not guys like “Bow Wow” driving around in Bentleys.

  Its funny because there were several cd’s that i wanted to get as gifts. I traveled to every cd store in my town and no one had them. I ended up having to get downloaded them from amazon. Maybe the cd sales would be up if the stores carried all but the top 10 current chart toppers.

  All I listen to on my Sirius radio are the liberal talk stations, 80’s music and 90’s Alternative.
  I don’t listen to any of the new music stations and I really don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

  Half the people in this thread say that all mainstream music sucks. The other half say the artists deserve more of a cut. It seems that the music sucking is causing the lack of sales. Except it isn’t. It’s the convenience of piracy. I just pointed to the elephant in the living room. So what the fuck are you going to do about that?

  The last CD I bought was “Pet Sounds” (1965) by the Beach Boys. I have not heard a good album since 1991 (”Nevermind” by Nirvana). As many of you said, no albums are worth buying today.

  If the band is good, ill buy the cd, cant beet having the physical item, but what gets on my tits are these X factor type singers etc, the market is flooded with them and like with any other market that gets flooded, the quality goes down as everyone wants a piece and tries to find way of making money quik while cutting corners. - you just have to look at the manufacturing market, with everything now going to china and co.

  And I am not the only one apparently

  Dec 07 and music sales are down because *album* sales are down

  more bad news for traditional media.

  It’s only going to get worse, especially if the record companies get away with saying that if you rip your own legally bought CDs, you’re still stealing.

  Die motherfucker! Die!

  It wuz cos ov teh piratz

  I was telling my kid about albumns and how big they were and how you got so much room for an artistic cover. On her own, she then said that cds were smaller and it was too bad.

  How about: ‘National burn a downloaded album for a friend day?’

  Why would I pay $12 for the whole CD when all I want is the chicken noodle soup song?

  Josh Ritter? really?