[Notforprophet]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

NFP

[DB]

I probably have a thousand CDs...

I'd guess that I've purchased less than 20 in the last year and half. And virtually all of those were small label companies.

It use to be that the music was all about the music. Now it's "music" videos and mostly naked girls trying to sell it...

No thanks.

When they produce music worth buying, I'll buy.

[Vaquero]

Like vinyl lps....I like to have my purchase in my hand to look at.

I like to take out the printed material and look at it...my kids have I-pods, but they take them off CD's. I may go the I-Pod route so as to consolidate my music into one easy to activate source, but I do believe I will buy the CD's for downloading purposes.

[Cowboy Bob]

The rampant success of Apple's iPod indicates that consumers are as interested as ever in acquiring music, but it also suggests they prefer to buy without either entering a store or handling a CD.

I got tired long ago of buying an album/CD that had 1 good song and 12-15 crappy "filler" songs!

[camle]

maybe if they weren't so dern expensive, people would buy more?

nah! too simple.

[sgtbono2002]

Glad to hear it. I wish them all the bad luck in the world , the greedy bastids.

[amchugh]

People still buy CDs? Who would have thought?

[Hydroshock]

It is a combination of ipods and most of the new music it trash.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Yesterday I bought three CD's for a music project, spent $16 each for them. At those prices I can understand why people would voluntarily spend their money differently.

[aruanan]

Compact Disc Sales Plummet 20% Since Start of Year

If the price of compact discs actually reflected the cost of manufacture and materials (compared with LPs), there would be a lot more purchases.

[LibLieSlayer]

Psssst... the dirty little secret is that people are NOT buying music. They steal it online! (I can't stand the truncated sound of MP3's).

There is very little worth buying any longer... older artists and older music is still selling, according to Amazon.

LLS

[bmwcyle]

MP3 killed the rush marketed under sampled poor replacement for records.

[BuffaloJack]

The problem with digital content is that they want to make it non-portable. You buy it and download it to your MP3 player. When you get a new player they want to charge you again.

[Mr. Brightside]

sniff, sniff

Where is my kleenex?

[Red Badger]

I guess all those iPods for Christmas had something to do with this...........Thanks Steve Jobs.........

[The Great RJ]

The audio CD is dead except in the mind of the record companies. Why should a retail store devote large amounts of floor space to at best a mediocre selection of CDs? The technology currently exists to have music be sold in computer kiosks where patrons could insert a credit card and download music one song at a time from hundreds of thousands of titles into what ever format they wish...MP3, I-pod, or custom CD.

I have long quite buying audio CDs and download my music from I-tunes. I can find even obscure titles and artists that I cold never find in any traditional CD outlet at a reasonable price and with immediate delivery.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Is it the CDs, or the fact that there are no good albums being released this year?

When one of the top hits playing is a parody song by Weird Al Yankovich, you have to wonder.

[Theophilus]

I would have bought Norah Jones' new CD but it was filled with her unpalatable political opinions.</p>

[Theophilus]

I would have bought Norah Jones' new CD but it was filled with her unpalatable political opinions.</p>

[Sgt_Schultze]

There's really no reason for the record companies to continue to exist. Artists could pay private recording studios to produce their songs and negotiated or stipulated prices. The artists could then sell the downloads directly on their own websites and keep the whole dollar. I would hazzard that most folks wouldn't mind paying the buck, especially if they knew it was going to support their favored artist.