Comments on: Industry: Apple iTunes Now Biggest Music Retailer, Above Wal-mart http://supernormalrecords.com/2008/04/02/industry-apple-itunes-now-biggest-music-retailer-above-wal-mart/ - A music and video experience by Tyler Christensen - This is the home of supernormal tyler and Tyler Christensen's music and video adventures Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:37:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: supernormal http://supernormalrecords.com/2008/04/02/industry-apple-itunes-now-biggest-music-retailer-above-wal-mart/comment-page-1/#comment-69 supernormal Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:12:36 +0000 http://supernormalrecords.com/?p=103#comment-69 "You might ask, well how do they even compare the two, CDs are multiple songs, digital downloads are single songs. Well, they count 12 tracks as an “album” so 12 digital downloads = 1 album sale." This is an old-guard standard. The Powers-that-have-ceased-to-be have determined that an album consists of 12 songs, and the artist is payed based on the number of tracks on an album times per-play times a measley fricking 12 cents. Do you still want to play that game my Indie-Revolutionaries. Yeah. I don't either. Let's own our own! “You might ask, well how do they even compare the two, CDs are multiple songs, digital downloads are single songs. Well, they count 12 tracks as an “album” so 12 digital downloads = 1 album sale.”

This is an old-guard standard. The Powers-that-have-ceased-to-be have determined that an album consists of 12 songs, and the artist is payed based on the number of tracks on an album times per-play times a measley fricking 12 cents. Do you still want to play that game my Indie-Revolutionaries. Yeah. I don’t either. Let’s own our own!

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