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ST Music Poll: Do you agree or disagree with this statement:

Posted by JaxSean (aka JaxSean) Mar 13 '09, 05:58

"Digital downloads, while significant and growing rapidly, don't make up for the CD's decline."

I wholeheartedly disagree. When I can get a CD online at 2 am, burn it to a $0.10 disc, or put it on my mp3 player, there's no reason for me to go buy a physical CD. Plus, it's cheaper.

where that sentence came from... (arstechnica.com)

Responses:

Agreed. There's still a ton of people who steal music digitally that count neither place. - Will Hunting Mar 13, 07:04
Disagree, it's a huge factor imo. -- nm - Krusty Mar 13, 06:22
Absolutely agree. -- nm - TFox Mar 13, 06:17 9
- You agree that digital downloads aren't the cause of the decline of CD sales? - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:19 7
  - You're reading it wrong. They're saying that record companies are losing money because download sales are growing slower than CD sales are falling. -- nm - Ender Mar 13, 06:29 5
    - But that's also because (as Beaker said) you can download 1 or 2 songs instead of buying a $12 CD. - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:31 4
      - Right, and the record labels have no idea how to make up for that. -- nm - Ender Mar 13, 06:34 3
        
        Stop selling CD's? remove DRM, sell them online, and let people do with the music what ever they want. - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:48
        
        f*ck 'em. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 06:46 1
        
        I agree with this sentiment, too. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:49
  - Oh, I thought it was saying that digital downloads aren't making up the money lost from the decline of CD sales -- nm - secretslacker Mar 13, 06:21
- Then I disagree even *more* than I did before. -- nm - secretslacker Mar 13, 06:18
I would think that there are enough casual shoppers who'd buy from Amazon/ITunes quicker than they would go to a record shop - secretslacker Mar 13, 06:17
Financially for the producing machine/record companies, I think it's true. - Callisto Mar 13, 06:09 3
- Maybe I'm reading the statement differently. I'm assuming it means "people are not buying less CDs because they can download digitally." - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:22 2
  - The article is all about how the record companies can stay in business. So I think you're reading it wrong. -- nm - Subversive Mar 13, 06:36 1
    - I understood what the article was about, but I just thought that statement to lead it off was very incorrect. (Or maybe poorly worded?) -- nm - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:45
I took the statement as saying it won't make up for the decline for the sellers - which I agree with. - Beaker Mar 13, 06:06 2
- And when you can buy 2 songs instead of a full (physical) CD, you're less likely to buy the CD. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:25
- or producers -- nm - Beaker Mar 13, 06:07
Generally I disagree, but there are other important factors: the suckiness of music, the draconian nature of the RIAA over the years, etc. That said, - Don Homer Mar 13, 06:05 2
- I don't hear a difference, honestly. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 13, 06:24
- Here is one article discussing that study... -- (link) - Don Homer Mar 13, 06:06
Financially make up for it? I believe it. -- nm - mara Mar 13, 06:03

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