we don’t need cds anymore. cd-recordables are still handy, but not the regular ones you buy with music on them.
i was reading an article about cds with digital rights management, which only let you listen to the music through a proprietary media player program when used on computers. why bother with that crap?
if i owned a record label, i’d stop selling cds. i’d sell all music online and figure out a way to put digital kiosks into stores. and if people wanted physical cds, they could pay for the music and burn it onto disc.
oh, and i would sell music as soon as it was finished. done recording? done mastering? put it online. don’t give anyone a chance to pirate it and have it out there before the legitimate product is out. if people want the music bad enough and all they can do is pay for it, maybe they would pay for it.
I hear that. The music industry fucked up big time.
big time.