aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

CD undead

Yesterday we read that the album is dead. Today we read long live the CD:

What we are witnessing is not so much the imminent death of CDs but the death of the old methods of selling CDs. It’s still possible to make money in the CD business-any business with more than $7 billion in retail sales should allow someone, somewhere, to make a profit. The incumbents are getting killed, but upstarts are thriving, using different methods.

Those “thriving” upstart stores are “more like art-house theaters.”

Ok. Maybe. For a while.