Utter, utter headline failure.
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Someone kill me. Kill me now. I can't take the stupidity anymore.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Digital music sales outstrip CDs and records |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18278037 That 3 month figure's tragic, the music industry really needs to diversify the top 40 just for a start. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Digital music sales outstrip CDs and records |
I still buy almost all of my music on CD. That way I can rip it however I want and always have a physical backup. I think I've only ever bought two songs online. |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:08 am ] | |||||||||
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Utter, utter headline failure.
Someone kill me. Kill me now. I can't take the stupidity anymore.
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:18 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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It's a little twisted because English is a stupid language and the sentence is ambiguous, but it's not wrong. Bear with me. Digital is referring to the "music sales" and not to the "music". It should perhaps read "Digital sales of music outstrip CD sales" to make it less ambiguous, but that's too long. They rely on the reader using common sense to guess the correct meaning, which is something we do all the time. Most people know exactly what it means, and won't even notice the ambiguity. |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Digital music sales outstrip CDs and records |
It should read "Online sales outstrip physical sales". Trying to differentiate between different kinds of digital is idiotic |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Digital music sales outstrip CDs and records |
Why? We differentiate between different sorts of analogue stuff all the time. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:21 am ] | |||||||||
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Technically, on-line isn't the only way to make a digital purchase. They were offering an MP3 OTC service at some places, copied directly to your memory card. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:41 am ] | |||||||||
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I buy CDs online. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Digital music sales outstrip CDs and records |
Surely the mean physical media vs downloads? The problem is with semantics, and we can argue about this all day. You have to remember that we are a bunch of people who are: a) active in the digital realm more than most b) more likely to be at the bleeding edge of things c) Borderline Aspergic, and therefore more sensitive to subtleties and prone to pedantry  The fact is that to the majority of people, digital music has come to mean downloads - MP3s, AAC, those files the kids have ripped off The Pirate Bay. CDs, whilst genuinely digital are perceived more as some kind of analogue construct because they are the natural successors to tapes and LP records. They LOOK more analogue - hell the actually MOVE over a play head of sorts. So I am inclined to let this one slide simply because to the Man on the Clapham Omnibus, the headline is perfectly understandable. |
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