Death of the CD?

Hey all,

The music industry is in the midst of a crisis, it's a crisis of format and technology.

Nielsen Soundscan (the company that keeps track of CD sales) reports that CD sales were down by 15% in the year 2007. They also reported only 500.5 million sales of CD's that year. This from an article by Alex Veiga from the Associated Press. Digital music sales on the other hand were up about 45%.

Is this the death of the CD?

I still believe in the "hard copy".
I like to be able to hold something tangible in my hand. I'm 'Old School' and it took me a long time to adjust to the small size of the CD label - I'm more used to the large Album Covers I grew up with - am I going to be stuck with the itty-bitty digital icons from now on? Have my liner notes been turned into simple mp3 tags?

Say it ain't so!

Anyway, for those of you who feel like I do I've made my CD "The Late Show" available in both CD and Digital formats. I'm longing for the BIG cover, but I'm not going straight to itty-bitty- icon-land just yet. I'll spend a little more time in the mid-zone with my small (but readable) CD jewel cases.

Join me. You can purchase "The Late Show" CD HERE .

You can get the digital mp3's below: