[Perdogg]

I have always wondered about that. What about books?

[HonkyTonkMan]

Those who once built their music-buying week around new albums coming out on Tuesdays

Been years since I bought any new music - anything coming out of nashville these days is pop-garbage.

[bgill]

The last music I bought was on cassette tape back in the ‘90s.

[PAR35]

They still release albums?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Albums”?? What is this thing of which he speaks?

[GSWarrior]

Did you know that except for a brief period of hard rock and c&w in the 70s, most music is garbage? ; )

[SamAdams76]

Just shows you why the recording industry is such a dinosaur and deserves to have it's lunch eaten.

In this day and age, there is no good reason to restrict the release of music to a certain day of the week. The original reason for a single day of the week release was to allow retail outlets to get product into the stores so that there could be a level playing field when sales started getting tabulated (for chart placement in Billboard magazine).

So back in the 1970s, when a new REO Speedwagon or Journey recording was coming out, it might take a few extra days for the stores in Kansas and Nebraska to get the album shipped to them, so the recording industry decided that new records would only be officially released on a Tuesday (originally Monday) so that stores would have a full week to get the product.

I remember in Boston, stores would start getting copies of new albums shipped to them on a Friday and they'd sell a few of them "out the back door" at a premium price until the official release on Tuesday. They'd also find their way to local radio stations who would start playing the records the weekend before, despite the nasty letters they'd get from the record companies for doing so.

Such an archaic and out-dated business model that the recording industry still clings to, to their detriment.

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[Slings and Arrows]

This sounds like a good excuse to promote my music.

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[Gay State Conservative]

99.9% of the music that is,IMO,worth owning was made before 1990.Of the songs recorded since that year I think I've bought about a dozen...either on CD or via downloads.It's difficult for me to imagine buying more than a half dozen newly recorded songs from now until I die.

IOW,I couldn't care less when new music is released.

[VanDeKoik]

How many people are going to care?