Speaking of cupcakes
Were these people ever really kids?
Edited to add-
I think of should of added that I don’t think they understand the role of food in social functions, and that it isn’t purely about the love of sugary snacks. Or that people out there (like me) actually can do enjoy baking. And anyway, it’s not like eating a baked good once in a while will kill you.
iTunes sales ‘collapsing’.
Bernoff makes a fascinating comparison between the public’s appetite for buying CDs over the internet, and its lack of appetite for DRM songs. Online individuals (rather than households) bought 1.7 CDs over the internet per quarter.
“The comparatively modest iTunes numbers suggest that consumers are still spending the bulk of their music budget $14-at-a-time on shiny discs,” he writes.
“iTunes sales are not cutting into CD sales,” he elaborated to us, “they’re an incremental purchase at best.
“There’s a problem here. CD sales have fallen 20 per cent over five years. The message here is not that CD sales are coming back, the ability to obtain pirated music is now so widespread the DRM looks to consumers more like a problem than a benefit.”
I’ve noticed that posters on the Lisa Gerrard official board claiming they downloaded her new album but were still interested in buying the CD when it was finally available. Compressed music at bitrates as low as what is being sold at most of the downloading services still kind of suck, the DRM doesn’t make the deal too sweet either. And while local record stores may be closing and/or suffering from hard times, there has still been a huge rise in purchasing audio discs online, due to price and sometimes obscurity issues. The CD and LP aren’t dead yet.
Edited to add-
I think of should of added that I don’t think they understand the role of food in social functions, and that it isn’t purely about the love of sugary snacks. Or that people out there (like me) actually can do enjoy baking. And anyway, it’s not like eating a baked good once in a while will kill you.
iTunes sales ‘collapsing’.
Bernoff makes a fascinating comparison between the public’s appetite for buying CDs over the internet, and its lack of appetite for DRM songs. Online individuals (rather than households) bought 1.7 CDs over the internet per quarter.
“The comparatively modest iTunes numbers suggest that consumers are still spending the bulk of their music budget $14-at-a-time on shiny discs,” he writes.
“iTunes sales are not cutting into CD sales,” he elaborated to us, “they’re an incremental purchase at best.
“There’s a problem here. CD sales have fallen 20 per cent over five years. The message here is not that CD sales are coming back, the ability to obtain pirated music is now so widespread the DRM looks to consumers more like a problem than a benefit.”
I’ve noticed that posters on the Lisa Gerrard official board claiming they downloaded her new album but were still interested in buying the CD when it was finally available. Compressed music at bitrates as low as what is being sold at most of the downloading services still kind of suck, the DRM doesn’t make the deal too sweet either. And while local record stores may be closing and/or suffering from hard times, there has still been a huge rise in purchasing audio discs online, due to price and sometimes obscurity issues. The CD and LP aren’t dead yet.