Lord N on 26 February 2008
The problem with CD's is that 1) they're too expensive and 2) they often only have a few good songs.
Teenagers usually don't buy CD's anyway since most of them don't have jobs to begin with, so the effect that them using P2P is having on CD sales is de minimus.
CD's shouldn't cause anymore than $10. P2P became popular not because people are thieving ingrates who want everything for free, but because the industry wouldn't give them what they wanted. People got sick of paying $20 for a CD with two or three good songs and ten other pieces of crap, so they found an alternative.
CD sales would have probably never taken their plunge had they been adequately priced and had the record labels bothered to put out a few CD's where, god forbid, all the songs are of quality. CD sales are down because their product sucks, and their business model sucks.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
