So at the young age of 31, it will be 32 next spring, I remember getting music on 8 track, Vinyl, Cassette Tape, and of course the current method of Compact Disks but Micro SD Cards? I guess it stands to reason that if the way of the future for music is digital, iPods and MP3 Players being the preferred devices to listen to these days, the industry needs to rethink it’s distribution methods. They have set up online music stores like Rhapsody,iTunes, and Amazon Music where you can download and listen to digital music by the song or the album, and it seems that everyone but the artist has gotten rich off this plan. CD sales are slumping as the consumer prefers to pay only for those songs they like rather than an entire album worth of songs they may like just to have a copy of that one great single they heard on the radio last week. To combat this phenomenon, digital media sales in store fronts all across the country that will drop right into just about any computer, cell phone, or digital media player with ease. It’s a move I thought was a bit strange at first. Then I remembered how odd it seemed that I could get the entire contents of a CD on a small memory card to take along in my MP3 player, only now I won’t have to waste time on the download or conversions. They will be purchased in MP3 format all ready to drop into my Sansa and hit the road. The times, they are a changin’
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