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Even if adjusted for inflation, it seems middling rather than "nowhere near what it was" and it seems to grow as well. The 90's were an outlier IMO, because we
by dgb23 3y ago
Even if adjusted for inflation, it seems middling rather than "nowhere near what it was" and it seems to grow as well.
The 90's were an outlier IMO, because we got CD's for easy distribution but it was before the internet and especially smartphones were widely available.
Companies like Spotify and Netflix basically hinge on being more convenient than internet based piracy, radio, ad supported streaming etc.
- matwood 3y ago> because we got CD's for easy distribution Not just that, but it triggered a huge rebuy of old music for the format change from cassette. That's literally never going to happen again.
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- ghaff 3y agoThe early CD era represented a pre-web period where people were not only making regular run rate music purchases but also replacing some amount of the vinyl they already owned. (And cassette as sibling post mentions.)