Sure I remember $18.99 CD's

Sure I remember $18.99 CDs

And the big tall boxes they came in.
Riding a beach cruiser to the wherehouse
to shell out money earned as a little league umpire.

I think that's the time-frame of me life.

Always felt like I was getting ripped off, so this is the
industries comeuppance. (yes I looked up the spelling of that in a dictionary.)

This just in--red dot on jupiter is getting smaller. Oh and yesterday there was
a great headline of--Nacho the Chihuahua attacked by an owl.
That news helps with the pain of--3 year old intentionally shot--

Back to the evil industry.
So I don't feel for their waste and their lack of taste.

I like sharing music as much as anybody and if someone hands me a new
copy of Jack White's new band I'm sure to put it on my computer at work for a listen and if I like I'll burn it for my car and if I really like I may walk on over to the local retail store and pick myself up a copy.

Finally to the point of this--my local retail behemoth-Tower--is going the way of other mom and pop and freaking old guy record stores and saying "I can't compete with free." When Bankruptcy was their business plan you knew they were buying time.

A new Beyonnce CD would never get to $9.99 but there would be newer artists for $8.99.

For all of us for the change-a-brewing in the industry I think this is a watershed moment. I'm sure to be saving plenty by not having a retail store within miles of my newly refreshed Friday Morning at the office bank account.

We can all cheer in the new business model.....and that would be...
If I can go online and order a CD, but then have to wait a few days for it to arrive, or I can click to a file share site and get it immediately and my credit card untouched...Would I be and idiot not to go for Free?

I would listen to some new artists on this hear myspace and decide to go take my afternoon break and share my debit card on an up and comer. Or even a local act done good. Tower would have a section for these break it big any minute bands. And the price would be under $10 dollars.

Now the choice is to get online and find those artists for free. Pick-up a cd at a show--pint, cd? Cd another Pint?

Or go to Amoeba.

Distribution going down. Not sure yet what will rise out of this. But as an aspiring strummer of the guitar. It is wide open.

And my trigger purchases a thing of the past.