how about price as a major factor? i'm not going to pay $18.99 for a single disc. that was the going rate at Tower before they started liquidating everything.
so many albums now are filled with one or two great songs and a bunch of filler garbage. i think a lot of people decided to stop paying for those crappy songs and choose to purchase the singles online. did anyone do a study looking at that?
also, i pay for musicmatch. i can stream almost any material through the internet. no, i can't put it on my ipod (though you can pay extra for that), but i spend enough time in front of this computer to get my money's worth.
how does that impact the industry?
i can count the albums i've purchased in the last calendar year on one hand. whose fault is that? maybe there just isn't enough good music around.