Record Execs are changing there tune about file-sharing and sales

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In addition, the introduction of CD's in the early 1980's encouraged consumers to replace their vinyl records with copies in the new format, but that sales spike has since abated.

so many songs sounded so much better when you got around to hearing them on cd .after you had heard them for years on scratched up vinyl or crappy casette,it was like an addiction for some people replacing their old faviorites as well as getting the latest releases..in the mid 80's
it might of been 5 years or so there artists released there product on vinyl and CD (CD/casseste i think are still released?)

when i think of all the money people poured into their record collections in the 70's...only to find they had an inferior product a decade or so later and had to upgrade...no wonder they had a spike in their profits

i think its the same strategy M$ uses every time a new windows is released..
(they also prey on the human need to upgrade)

for the music listeners that have paid their dues, fileshareing is a bit of a payback...(imagine how bad the internet would suck with out it..)
and for those growing up with it,
maybe it could be their new alternative to radio...