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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Ask the music industry how it's doing, having devalued their product (songs) to $1 a piece. CD sales are dead, "album" sales are dead, music itself is fucking DEAD.
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Actually, selling individual tracks at a buck a pop is what is saving the music industry.
The Big Five fucked over consumers for years. Forcing them to buy albums full of shit for the one song they actually wanted. Their sales are fucked because when CDs came out, everyone rebought the albums they already owned creating a massive artificial hockey puck curve of sales. Once those people had rebought the content, sales slowed down.
Now, they offer what consumers want. Individual track purchases and of course the HUGE success of streaming services such as Rhapsody, Rdio, Spotify etc.
The music industry is being saved by these digital legal downloads.
The derp is strong in your post.