The Album Is Dead…

There once was a time when the release date of an album was exciting. For our favorite artists, we knew when the last album came out and when the next album was due. If you loved the artist, you bought it. If you didn’t, you either bought the single or you listened to the album with your friends and then decided.

As the price of records and then CDs increased year by year, spending 20 bucks for a CD became a purchase you needed to be sure of rather than a no-brainer or impulse buy.

Then free became an option.

Then aggregating almost unlimited free music on a PC and then an iPod became easy.

So here we are in 2008 and the only given in the music industry is that CD sales have and will fall. And fall. And fall.

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