[Paleo Conservative]

8The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.

Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

[Skooz]

Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

Absolutely.

CDs and vinyl are superior sound wise. That's why I buy them.

[Sans-Culotte]

Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

I listen primarily to classical, and continue to buy CDs, SACDs and Blu-ray audio discs. The only time I buy digital music is when it's one of those cheap Bach Guild sets from Amazon that I can stream in my office at work.

[discostu]

They shouldn’t, lazy uploaders cause that to happen. There are formats available for download that are far superior to CD quality, but they make big files so most folks use a higher compression algorithm than CDs which kills fidelity.