http://www.impactlab.com/2008/02/27/48-of-teenagers-bought-no-cds-in-2007/ A laboratory of the future human experience Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/02/27/48-of-teenagers-bought-no-cds-in-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-588 48% of Teenagers Bought No CDs in 2007 « The Keelynet Blog Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:48:14 +0000 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/02/27/48-of-teenagers-bought-no-cds-in-2007/#comment-588 [...] I know I shouldn’t buy pirate anythings but I look at it as previews, where for a movie I like, I will go to the theater for the full big screen experience. And I know a lot of people who download youtube and other video site archives, then strip out the audio to MP3s. So with all thats available, this report caught my eye to see the reduction in purchasing CDs. “48% of teenagers bought no CDs at all in 2007, up from 38% in 2006. Music downloads continue to grow, though, with iTunes leading the way. The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, which sells only digital downloads, jumped ahead of Best Buy Co. to become the No. 2 U.S. music seller, trailing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” - Source [...] [...] I know I shouldn’t buy pirate anythings but I look at it as previews, where for a movie I like, I will go to the theater for the full big screen experience. And I know a lot of people who download youtube and other video site archives, then strip out the audio to MP3s. So with all thats available, this report caught my eye to see the reduction in purchasing CDs. “48% of teenagers bought no CDs at all in 2007, up from 38% in 2006. Music downloads continue to grow, though, with iTunes leading the way. The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, which sells only digital downloads, jumped ahead of Best Buy Co. to become the No. 2 U.S. music seller, trailing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” – Source [...]

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