Word: cd
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...week before Thanksgiving, Amazon announced it would try its hand at stuffing stockings with videos and an assortment of holiday gifts, including toys and electronic games. There's reason to believe the crossover can work. Amazon began selling music in June and quickly grabbed the lead in online CD retailing...
During the second week of October, a curious thing happened in the software world: Windows 98 was not the top-selling CD-ROM in the nation. What was? Deerhunter II, a $20 sequel that pits high-tech computer gamers against low-tech deer. While this upset may have ruined breakfast for a few Microsofties, it came as no surprise to anyone who's been watching the computer-gaming world during the past year. Software programs that simulate hunting have dominated the charts ever since GT Interactive created the original Deer Hunter this past January; four hunt-and-shoot titles were...
...great from the near great, Philips has just released the first set of 30 double CDs in its ambitious Great Pianists of the 20th Century series. When the last set is issued in August 1999, the compilation will total 250 hours of music on 200 discs--the largest CD edition ever released...
...Schnabel's Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff's Schumann, Sviatoslav Richter's Prokofiev, Walter Gieseking's Debussy. But Deacon was too knowledgeable, and too wily, to select only the gems that every piano lover may already have. More than a quarter of the music in the collection was previously unavailable on CD, and some pieces, such as Clifford Curzon playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27, have never before been released commercially in any format. Deacon scoured the archives--and his own collection--for rare and historic performances. He passed over Alexis Weissenberg's famed 1971 recording of Scriabin's Nocturne...
...fairly economical for a band to self-record and release a seven-inch or a CD," the liner notes tell us. That may be true, but just because they can is no reason for you to waste your time listening to them. Pick up the Best of New Order or Depeche Mode 101 instead. Or rent Pretty in Pink and sing along with the original tunes. Altogether now: "I touch you once/Touch you twice/Won't let go at any price...