Why do people keep buying CDs?
Found on The Register on Sunday, 29 November 2009
Audio connoisseurs' favourite Linn Products last week confirmed that it will stop designing and selling CD players from next year to focus on streamers, although its legendary turntables will continue.
CDs are dying - and I'm not suggesting it's a reversible decline - but its death has been far slower than anyone expected.
I hope the CD dies. There is a simple reason for not buying them anymore: the industry. Every time I see a price label on a CD it scream "support us so we can keep on sueing customers and stiffle innovation". Thanks, but no. Instead, turn away from the registered mainstream music and you will discover a new world.