[Victor]

The music sales industry has changed so much and so quickly....the casual observer cannot see what has happened.

Mechanical media (CDs, tapes, etc) are a thing of the past (although I personally still prefer CDs- I buy from Amazon)

Today, even downloads are becoming a thing of the past because people subscribe to streaming services such as Spotify or Rhapsody...which are sort of a *Juke Box in the Sky*.

Artists are begging for scraps- they make next to nothing from streaming audio. The only *real* money left in the music business lies with the publishers.

[dfwgator]

Heck I can pretty much go to YouTube to hear anything I want.

[sheana]

I haven’t bought a cd in years. I listen to free Pandora.