Over at Marketing Shift, John Gartner picks up on the demise of the music industry as many others have done (including me):
"Back in my day people boasted of their racks of vinyl and fawned over the album art like treasures from the Louvre. No more. First smaller CDs and now digital downloads has killed the physical connection with an "album." Being able to buy tracks one at a time has slaughtered the cash cow that enabled the music industry to sell entire albums based on 3 or 4 quality tunes. Many people now prefer access to entire music libraries over racks of CDs in the family room. The music industry must view this as an opportunity instead of a threat."
Is that a ID3 tagged bell I hear tolling?