Word: cd
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...exuberant "New Song About a New Girl," and their closing ditty, the ever-arrogant and melancholy "Mistress" (sans piano version). Despite requests to hear more recent stuff, the band mostly kept to material from their first two albums, 1992's Down Colorful Hill and 1993's eponymous double CD...
...music is economic. Electronic mail-order houses are one of the few businesses making money on the Web, and music CDs are among the biggest sellers (along with books, flowers and pornography). Buyers get to sample songs before they purchase, and they enjoy modest discounts (typical price: $9.95 a CD); sellers save a fortune on overhead and can carry a much wider selection of performers. Internet Underground Music Archive www.iuma.com) one of the pioneers in the online-music business, got its start peddling the CDs of unsigned bands that nobody had ever heard of. Today the seven-person company carries...
...Jonathan Davis, and created a special electronic bulletin board for die-hard Korn fans. Not only has the Website been a big hit ("The Internet traffic is melting us down," says Epic's West Coast general manager Steve Rennie), but record sales have also taken off. Korn's new CD, Life Is Peachy, broke onto Billboard's album chart at No. 3, selling 152,000 in its first two weeks...
...alive with the sound of music, why can't you just down-load it directly onto a blank CD? In fact, you can--for a price. Writable (as opposed to read-only) CD technology has been available for years from companies like Philips, and the price of recorders, which until recently ranged from $1,000 to $1,200, has dropped as low as $700. Now Sony is aggressively marketing a minidisc recorder-player that sells for about $500. Blank minidiscs cost from $4 to $7 apiece--about half the price of the standard prerecorded CD...
...getting your hands on the hardware is only half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most...