Yet another piece on the music industry and the continued drop in CD sales.

Here is Ben Sisario's piece in the NYT.

What gets us specifically is this:

"Now it's the end of summer, beginning of fall, and there's still a lot of movement," Mr. Gyger said,...

Ten years ago, if you had a new release week like the one that's on tap for next week, retailers and fans alike would be pretty excited. Now, the general response is, "That's great, but I'm really busy. Between finding adorable pictures of kittens on the Internet and watching that...

So many of us suffer from that need, every July 4, to go to the beach (because driving three hours to spend two hours baking in the sun is so much fun), fire up the grill (because nothing says "freedom" like chicken wings and an ice-cold Red Bull), and see...

Nowadays, it's not hard for us to find stuff that really ticks us off. There's no avoiding it. Look at the front page of the paper -- news about the debacle in Iraq, the presidential campaign that we're already sick of, and, for some reason, Paris Hilton. The sports section?...

Record companies, which were designed to sell physical products to brick-and-mortar stores, are so 20th century that even old-timer Sir Paul McCartney is hawking his latest album with the help of a glorified coffee shop. There is a method to the Cute Beatle's madness. After all, Hear Music, Starbucks' record...

The big story is that Amazon is unveiling a music download store which could possibly give iTunes a run for its money. And we applaud Amazon, not only for its cojones in taking on Apple, but for exposing and exploiting iTunes' biggest weakness. Unlike iTunes, Amazon's service will be free...