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The poll did not provide information about consumer attitudes on other factors widely considered to be affecting CD sales, including the quality of new releases and the lack of easy-to-use online services from the major recording labels.

As was so eloquently stated by an earlier poster, the absurd price of CD's also has a lot to do with it. Just as an example, I went out and bought "Lord of the Rings" on DVD for twenty bucks. In addition to the movie, there were lots of extras added. The movie is less than a year old, and cost approximately $100 million to make. I can buy "Animal House", "Back to School", "CaddyShack", and lots of other DVD's for ten bucks or less. A Hank Williams CD, which was the exact same album I owned in 1972 (including the cover art) was going for $13.99. It probably cost less than $1000 to cut the entire CD in the forties. These guys want nearly as much for twenty minutes of fifty year old audio that was recorded on seriously inferior equipment as the movie industry is getting for two hours of audio and visual entertainment made within the last year.