On: How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself

[AndyKelley]

I actually buy CDs, and I discover lots of new music through Pandora and Last.fm. The music industry is trying to promote album sales by killing internet streaming?

[netcan → AndyKelley]

I'm not sure about streaming. But they do have some evidence that keeping hits off of itunes for some big names can improve album sales enough to make it worthwhile. Short term & silly. But there is reasoning.