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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Napster users 'giving up on CDs'

BBC:

Music fans are giving up buying CDs in favour of downloading music, according to download service Napster's UK arm.

Some 150,000 of Napster UK's 750,000 members say they no longer buy CDs, the company has revealed.

And Napster UK manager Leanne Sharman said it was "a matter of time" before downloading overtook high street shops as the most popular way to buy music.

CD sales have dipped slightly so far in 2005 compared with last year's record high when 163 million albums were sold.

I'm sure Napster users are also more prone to suicide, or at least they will be once they figure out that services like MSN Music and RealPlayer Music Store offer much higher quality tracks for the same prices. Just a thought. People who buy 128 Kbps songs--like those offered by Napster and Apple's iTunes--are the music equivalent of AOL users.

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