The End of the 80 gig Hard Drive?

By mrshl

It’s starting to seem obvious that Napster and eMusic, iTunes and Bit.Torrent have all been part of a transitional period. An interstitial era between the time when buying music meant buying physical media, and when we ultimately begin consuming most of our music from the Web. We will look back on this period and wonder [...]

July 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | One comment

Emusic going through another painful transition (or, the day Emusic died?)

By mrshl

$3.99.
That’s my perfect price for a full-album download. It’s unscientific, of course, and depending on the circumstances I might be willing to pay as much as 4.99 or 5.99, but that’s the edge of what I think your average 12-song record is worth nowadays, free of its packaging, liner notes and disc media.
That’s just my [...]

June 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | 9 comments