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Nice article

Posted by andy_c on March 28, 2007 at 13:20:42

In Reply to: The CD is not dead....yet posted by mishmashmusic on March 28, 2007 at 07:10:51:

My favorite quote is this one:

"What we are witnessing is not so much the imminent death of CDs but the death of the old methods of selling CDs."

Right on the money. I think a lot of this gloom and doom "the CD is dead" talk is coming from brick and mortar retailers who are getting wiped out. A couple of years ago I would go to Borders when they had their "4 CDs for the price of 3" deals. Their Blue Note RVG series CDs retailed for $12. So I could get 4 of them for $36. Great deal! But other CDs had much higher list prices. I did this until I had bought all the RVGs I was interested in that they had in stock. Then I started buying CDs online from places like amazon and deepdiscountcd. I recently went to Borders to buy a book. The CD selection had been greatly downsized. Upon browsing through their collection, I found quite a few CDs that had a price of $19. WTF??? Who's going to buy them at that price?

By contrast, there's more and more variety of CDs available from low cost online vendors than ever before, at very good prices. Just as an experiment, I went to deepdiscountcd.com and did a search on "Bud Powell". I got 38 matches, and almost every CD that was not a multiple CD set was $10 or less. There were a few that cost more, but these were some oddball ones. This is with free shipping. If I went to my local Borders, I'd be lucky to find maybe 5 Bud Powell CDs, probably ranging from $12 to $19.

When this kind of stuff happens, the writing is on the wall for the brick and mortar CD retailers. Doesn't mean the CD is dying though.

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