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.
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....older artists and older music is still selling, according to Amazon.
To older people.
Kids are listening to more music than ever before, much of it new stuff and a lot of it far beneath the radar of the major record labels. Thanks to the ability to cheaply produce an entire album, inexpensive silk screening processes, photoshop, and webpages, a lot of bands are eeking out a subsistance living as musicians.