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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Some experts argue that radio, long seen as an industry ally, is now more of an enemy. In a study published earlier this year, University of Texas at Dallas economics professor Stan Liebowitz argues that radio acts as a substitute for music sales. "I am not disputing that radio is very good in picking which songs are going to become very popular," says Liebowitz, the director of Center for the Analysis of Property Rights & Innovation at the university. "But if radio didn't exist, we could see a 50% to 60% increase in record sales." How so? Instead of listening to the radio in their cars, Americans might buy more CDs or digital recordings, he says.
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Um except that a lot of time people only know about a song or CD because they heard it on the radio. So without it they never would have known the CD existed in the first place to buy it. I'm sure radio play leads to more CD sales not less.
the fact is considering that trying to record a song on the radio it will have shitty quality compared to what you could get on a CD or digital download. Not to mention radio stations often talk though the beginning and/or ending of a song and sometimes they even play songs at a10% faster rate so they can fit more commercials in. Now why would someone rather have a copy of that than a CD or digital download is beyond me. This isn't the 70's or early 80's where there wasn't a such quality differential compared to a LP or cassette and you could actually tape a song without having the DJ talk over the first 30 seconds.