I even posted my own muxtape to share with the world.
I used to buy CDs in actual music stores. But I can't remember the last time I did that. In fact, the only time I remember going into a music store lately, it was a record store (Orpheus in Clarendon, which is going out of business by the end of the month), and I bought a used copy of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk from the bargain bin. And that was before my record player died, which must have been at least a year ago.
I think I'm a prime example of the reason that record stores are going out of business -- my habits have changed drastically in a very short time.
A couple of months ago, I read a Washington Post article indicating that the record industry believes that it is illegal for me to copy the music that I have purchased in CD format onto my computer. That can't be right, can it?
About the only thing in the entire story that made sense to me is this:
The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only "created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies," Beckerman says. "Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started."
The 21st century is a confusing time.
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Crybaby executives. It isn't that people have stopped buying music, it's that technology has evolved and the industry hasn't caught up. And they're damn fools for not seeing this one coming down the pike what with the explosion of the iPod around, um, over five years ago.
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