The CD is Dead Long Live The CD?

It's very sad to me, all this business of record stores closing, cds dying. How can downloads possibly be as attractive as a physical disc of some sort? :(

One can only hope...

The medium has always sucked, but vinyl still seems to be going strong... Didn't the pundits say something about the death of vinyl a few years ago???

Yes, sometimes change can be hard. Thanks to the Internet there will always be a nich market for us types.

The really sad part is, where are all those Kids who used to work at Tower Records going to find jobs, where the boss lets them hang chunks of metal from there faces.

I just can't see it happening in the near future. Do classical and jazz music companies expect their clientele is going to completely convert to music downloading? It's just not gonna happen. They might as well drop an A-bomb on their entire market demographic and kiss their recording sales goodbye...and with symphony tickets going for an average of $90/each (and much higher for a seat in the actual hall), the classical music industry needs to sell recordings.

There will continue to be a physical music delivery system, whether it's a silver disc is another question, but downloads will not be the only method of buying music.