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do you guys not realise that people are NOT buying music as they did before and that the only people keeping the industry going are gig goers and stupid fans who need to buy stuff (oh and the teens downloading lady gaga for their iphails / ipops)

there's no point in releasing a vanilla CD with nothing on it for £7.99 - it makes no money, what does make money is lavishly packaged 'all singing' boxes that fans can keep for ever, in the hope that they will come back for more and perhaps buy some tickets for their tours...

the industry is in a mess due to the internet and the only way to make money is to fleece the people who've been buying shit for years, and i'm not pointing the finger at UW here, more like the bigger stadium rock bands, the stones, the beatles, the bowies, and depeche modes of this world...