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CDs are still big in Japan. https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-stores-than-the-rest-of-the-world/ https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-st
by ipsin 9y ago
CDs are still big in Japan.
https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-stores-than-the-rest-of-the-world/ https://qz.com/711490/why-japan-has-more-music-stores-than-t...
- mc32 9y agoI mean, I'm aware of it, but can't understand why. It used to be they were at the forefront of new technology, but as with their isdn deployments, sometimes being too far ahead leads to dead ends like this one. It's quite an interesting phenomenon.
- etiam 9y agoHaving a tangible, beautiful object, often with additional art and conveniently readable and viewable extra information, a dead end?! From where I sit, almost all the rest of the world are who went wrong, with impoverished, locked-in streaming services from businesses who take everything away the day you stop paying them, and dull audiofile-only downloads. But we seem to agree that Abe declaring unauthorized CD copying preparation to terrorism is ludicrous...
- hkmurakami 9y agoNot really CDs but items (ex: handshake passes, photos, etc) that are attached to CDs.