Re: [microsound] [OT] Glut of new cds of just no money to spend?

[David Kendall <dkendall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I most definitely buy fewer CDs now than I did four years ago. For a while
I was buying fewer CDs because I had less money. These days I have a
little more money that I can spend on CDs, I buy more music, but I still
feel compelled to buy CDs much less frequently than I have in the past. If
I was to hazard an explanation here, I would be inclined to associate the
decline in sales of microsound/experimental CDs with the overall drop in
CD sales worldwide. I am not sure that overall economic conditions explain
this drop in CD sales, but I would imagine that explanations of why CD
sales are dropping these days in all markets might shed some light on this
issue as it relates to microsound/experimental music. Where are those
explanations, anyway?
David

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, scott allison wrote:

> I have been thinking some, about the past thread concerning people buying 
> less and less experimental cds... I wonder if it really has as much to do 
> with there being to many choices/a flooded market or maybe the problem could 
> also be related to the current down turn in consumer spending and the 
> increasing devaluation of the US dollar, (maybe this only relates to US 
> music buyers?), (we have less and less money to spend, and more and more 
> people seem to be getting laid-off). Are microsounders in the US spending 
> less on music now than you did four years ago, if so, do you feel its 
> because you have less money or just that there is less music you want to 
> purchase? How about people in other countries? Also if the US dollar 
> continues to drop, imported cds will cost more (look at current exchange 
> rate of US to European), possibly translating into even higher prices for 
> imported discs, but that would probably mean that US discs sent to other 
> countries would be cheaper because the US dollar is devalued. Am I way of 
> course with my thinking here?
> 
> Best
> Scott Allison
> 
> 
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