"Arny Krueger" said:
Most recent RIAA figures show that there has been a significant drop in
retail sales of all physical formats:
http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/...midYrStats.pdf
SACD down by 44.6%
DVD-A down by 35.1%
Vinyl down by 32.3%
CD was down by 14.3%
Note that the list of biggest losers was led by SACD, DVD-A and then vinyl.
The traditional CD format, which amounted for about 99% of all sales,
outperformed the rest.
In your glee to report the demise of "Hi-rez" and vinyl, you're
overlooking the fact that less music overall is sold.
Which, in turn, can mean two things: people find their music through
other (illegal?) channels, of they listen less.
Sad, indeed, that you seem to enjoy this.
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