The end of the CD?

[Jimbuna]

Very suprised at the high prices people are still expected to pay in the UK.

The more they charge, the more people they drive to illegal downloads.

[SUBMAN1]

With the poor quality of compressed music, I highly doubt CD's will ever go away. If they start releasing in a format like FLAC though, then maybe. Then I could burn back to a CD in original quality.

CD's are ridiculously priced though - almost $20 for a single CD!!!

-S

PS. And their slump in CD sales has nothing to do with pirates and illegal downloading. THe real reason is, if you go to your local CD store right now, is there a damn thing in there that you want?

[Sea Demon]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

PS. And their slump in CD sales has nothing to do with pirates and illegal downloading. THe real reason is, if you go to your local CD store right now, is there a damn thing in there that you want?

Good point. It looks like there is a glut of recording artists out there putting out albums, and most are pretty crappy. The record companies these days are giving any two-bit act a record contract, and then standing back to watch the results. If it sells, they further fund that artist. If not, they eliminate them from the label and they get no further funding. This has led to lots of musical choices in the music stores, but lower quality of choices. I seldom buy any CD's because alot of it just sucks. There are some bands/artists I do particularly like. I just wait for them to release something new and get that.