Entertainment For Lively Minds
The album is dead. Discuss. Or not.
Posted by Steven C on 29 January 2008 - 10:38pm.
Picking up the artists are clinging to albums theory, I-tunes now offers a service that informs you how much it would cost to 'complete' the purchase of an album from which you have already downloaded one or two tracks. Does anyone ever take up this kind and generous offer? Does anyone under 30 still shop for albums rather than downloading individual tracks? Does any band under 30 still expect to sell an album as such?Generally how important a source of revenue are these one-off downloads set against either CD sales or downloads of complete albums?
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Is the album dead or has the single just been reborn?
I've been thinking back to how things were when I were a lad on a tight pocket-money budget. I used to buy singles when I liked one-off songs and only albums if I was so enthralled by the artist that I had to have it all. Example: I remember rushing to buy "Silver Machine" as soon as it came out but I wouldn't buy a Hawkwind album until many years later, when the outlay involved didn't matter so much.
Isn't the download revolution just getting back to that? The over-30s aren't only the ones with the album-buying habit; they're the ones with the necessary cash, too.
Tempted to, actually....
I think it is useful, even if, ultimately, more so to Mr Jobs.
(Archie, I wonder if you wish you had waited even longer, given the number of £5 "Best of" compilations in the cheap sections....
Mind you, could that be because of a lack of requisite storage, which I am endeavouring to remedy? 4 words, first word sounds like Tin, second like a freshwater fish etc etc etc)