Word: cd
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...CD giveaways (or covermounts) are common practice, as magazines try to entice buyers with new indie rock compilations and newspapers look to shift copies with archive material from older artists. Just last month, the Mail on Sunday gave away a Peter Gabriel CD: a mishmash of not-so-famous tracks and live performances. But this is the first time in the U.K that a top-selling established artist has ever given away a full-length new release for nothing. What if others follow Prince's lead? How will retailers, who are already struggling to compete with supermarkets and online stores...
Bettinger compared floundering print newspaper circulation to declining CD sales in the music industry, although he was hesitant to make any predictions about the future of journalism...
...move millions of tickets in minutes. And they charged for it--as much as $15 on a $50 ticket. But the music industry, if you hadn't noticed, isn't quite what it used to be. Just as personal computers are replacing record stores and downloads will soon outpace CD sales, ticketing is experiencing a transformation all its own. "The Internet is the great equalizer," says Shapiro...
...knocked down, but never counts herself out. Among her relatives are some whose resistance to the Peacock Throne had led to their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under you." The film tracks Marjane's growing pains (shown literally, with body parts expanding in a split second), her love affairs with creepy or cheating...
...first Encores! entry of 2007, Stephen Sondheim's and James Goldman's Follies, might seem in no need of excavation. The original production, in 1971, is well remembered, indeed cherished, by the folks of a certain age who haunt City Center. The fabulous CD is readily available. In the 80s a famous concert version (also on CD) was performed at Carnegie Hall, and just six years ago a not-so-hot Broadway revival - I should say embalming - was on display...