Downloaded or Disc?

**Kane Knight** · 09-08-2005, 08:06 PM

Inspired by this,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4216400.stm

Napster users 'giving up on CDs'
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.
Some 55 million songs have been downloaded or streamed since Napster UK launched in May 2004, with James Blunt the most popular artist. (Continued in the url above)

poll coming.

--Edit-- Fixed now, since I apparently wasn't specific enough in referring to the article.

Do you prefer to buy CDs or buy through digital downloads?

View Poll Results: Which do you prefer?
Digital Download	3	14.29%
Compact Disc/other hardcopy	10	47.62%
I like them both/Doesn't matter	8	38.10%
Voters: 21. You must log in or register to vote on this poll.

09-08-2005, 08:06 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Downloaded or Disc? Inspired by this, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4216400.stm Napster users 'giving up on CDs' 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. Some 55 million songs have been downloaded or streamed since Napster UK launched in May 2004, with James Blunt the most popular artist. (Continued in the url above) poll coming. --Edit-- Fixed now, since I apparently wasn't specific enough in referring to the article. Do you prefer to buy CDs or buy through digital downloads? �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers Last edited by Kane Knight; 09-08-2005 at 09:58 PM.