Battle of the Download Charts
From The Guardian, via Slashdot: Beethoven more popular than McCartney, Bono.
I mean, I'll admit it's not really a fair competition, since it's the freakin' complete Beethoven symphonies for free (and I really really REALLY wish I'd known about that when it was running), but still... Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.
I gotta say I disagree with the LSO Live guy: I don't think legal music downloads are the industry revolution they're made out to be. I don't download important recordings, though I like iTunes. The quality of CDs is still superior to compressed computer files -- quite noticeably, sometimes -- and I like the permanence of the optical storage. I'm quite happy to go through the hassle of ripping a CD for a digital copy. And while iTunes's classical section is much better-stocked than the FYE in the Tower City Mall, it's nowhere near as big as Amazon's.
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