ahoy yee matees wheres mee gold ?

In this we discover theres yet another ‘shortfall‘ (bbc) in cd sales again

Jim Batchelor. (he be a jobbing pirate by trade) said Consumers failed to make up the shortfall online.

hmm i wonder why perhaps .. and then he added

“The release schedule in the first half of this year was very slow with few big acts delivering albums. “

- he’s an Genius that Jim Batchelor (no walking the planking for for you tonight) I can add that:

1. the cost of money is going up
2. cd’s are being given away by newspapers (think Prince)
3. None of the artists i like (my blog) seem to be releasing stuff via record companies.
4. I’d prefer to go a see an artist* rather buy there cd
5. Koopa failed to get a record deal, but made the charts without a record company.

So what do we learn that they teach at pirates school Robbie Williams 4VER seems to be the lesson.

* that if is near by, and as they make more money than from cd’s then screw the cd.