People are getting more free music on mp3s than they're getting on CDs, ... And nearly all those mp3s are illegally downloaded.
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Even bands with deep catalogs have hits, and then they have superstar hits. There may be 20 songs from Queen that people know, but really we're talking about two or three that are more popular by orders of magnitude. They're cultural staples. If I had the option to buy 9 songs instead of 12 songs on 'Meet the Beatles,' I might have done that.Eric Garland
It's an existential question. To answer it, you'd have to get between the ears of everyone who downloads for free, every time they download something.
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It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.
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There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not AR (Artist Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.
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But in the cases where people were downloading four or five or six songs from one work, 10 times out of 10 that album became a big seller at traditional retail. People still sometimes see the CD as a good investment.
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