1. Amazon's cheap pricing is siphoning off full album sales for indie releases (specifically Arcade Fire's The Suburbs), but overall iTunes still thumps them. Mostly because of iPods, though, probably.
2. Target is gaining on Wal-Mart in music sales, mostly due to a willingness to dive headfirst into the country market, and by securing exclusive country releases (like a deluxe Taylor Swift album). Wal-Mart, meanwhile, is moving away from the exclusive approach, citing ending up with a bunch of AC/DC and Kiss albums it can't send back to a label for a refund. But overall, Wal-Mart is still winning.
I remember hearing about Walmart and the new AC/DC album. They ordered a huge batch of albums and they didn’t sell well. Meanwhile Iron Maiden used all retailers in America and they charted at Number 4 on the Billboard Top 100.
Seriously, if I want most of an album I generally buy the CD so I can get the full uncompressed data (1.411 Mbps) instead of 128 or 192 kbps. I've bought a couple of things on iTunes but most digital music I've bought has been on Amazon. I've bought quite a few of their "99 Most Essential _________" which range in price from $1.99 to $5.
iTunes sound quality is poor. The sampling rate is really low. Teh drooling idiots here who post Apple spam and pimping daily will disagree.
Stupid question, but I’m clueless on this stuff:
My 12 y.o. is getting an MP3 player for Christmas from her grandparents. Where is the best source for music to download to the device?
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