An article on the increasingly rapid decline of the old music industry. I have no sympathy for those people, but at this point I'm not sure what, if anything, will take the place of the album/cd format. I think this is related to my lack of interest in any new albums in recent years. People are looking to iTunes and music blogs for new music, which results in more individual songs being downloaded, as opposed to complete albums or collections of songs. I'm hoping that something comes along to fill this gap, but not sure. At this point, there seems to be a sort of diaspora of listeners, roaming the internet searching for new sounds that they like, wherever they might find them.
Everyone knows now that they don't need to be gauged by the music industry, paying twenty dollars for a couple of good songs and mostly filler, but at the same time there have always been many great albums released with overarching themes or sounds--and I'd hate to see this disappear altogether.
