14 Dec
2002
14 Dec
'02
10:56 p.m.
chris wrote:
Or decreased sales couild simply be an indication that there is no
recorded music out there that people are willing to buy (ie: listen to)
because they like it enough to do so. I haven't heard too many acts that
I enjoy enough to go out and buy the CD, but I may just be getting
miserable / picky / cheap in my old age.... ;-})
Stan
<<snip>>
What I'm
referring to is the recording industry claiming their sales have
dropped. First of all, I want to see hard data to prove this. Second, I
want this dat to be from an independent auditor. Lastly, I want an
independent analyst to confirm whether this is because of rampant CD
copying on college campuses or if it is as a result of the economy.
I can't link to the report, because I don't recall where I saw it
(actually, I think I saw it in a local newspaper)... but there was one I
read recently that did site hard numbers to show that sales of CDs from
record stores have dropped over the last year (based on sales $$, they
didn't quote counts, so it could be from lowered prices, but since I
haven't noticed CD prices going lower, I doubt that). The numbers were of