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on the bright side, a band only has to sell 44,000 albums now to hit number one..
Cake tops charts, but numbers are low - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/24/3346030/cake-tops-charts-but-numbers-are.html# - broken link)
We buy a few each year, but nothing like 10-15 years ago when we'd buy a few per month.
I'm in my early sixties....here's my take on buying music.
I'm NOT against "buying" music. I do have heartaches, of a sort, with all of the changes I've seen since the 1950's in the MEDIA on which the music is recorded. By that I mean I've hundreds, EACH, of old 45 RPM records, 33 RPM records, cassette tapes, and finally CDs.
I'm sure that other people are tired of how music technology has morphed over the years. Hell, some of my old LPs are not even in stereo mode, i.e., I've some MONAURAL discs in the cabinet. Hell, they only started selling stereo records in 1958, when I was 10 years old.
So, my advice to people is to NOT buy music on any physical media. Instead, buy it in digital format, whatever it is today (mpeg?) and then you can keep thousands of CD's worth of music on a device the size of your thumb or a matchpack.
If a young person had all the different media that we have, I'd say convert it, but at my age I'm not going to waste my time. I'll just listen to it on youtube or other digital source.
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Like others have said, I like having the CDs as a back up to what's on my computer though I'm mostly listening through my MP3 players. I do still like having the album art and I do get some sense of enjoyment looking at a collection of media on my walls. I'm probably down to buying just a few CDs a years as opposed to a few a week a couple of decades ago.
^^^ That's what you get when you go to buy a long anticipated album that FANS have waited 8 years+ for. It was just like grade school again and all of us were 10! LMAO "Get off my shoe man..... stop pushing..... how about a elbow jab"? LOL Ya know, stuff like that! LOL That was a bit longer than 1 year. I went to WAL-MART the MINUTE it was released!
we're cottoning on to how much we're ripped off.
Plus our dollar is just about even with US, so shopping online at the moment makes a lot of sense!
Yeah, but YOU could go to where it all STARTED if you wanted! I'd probably pass out and need carrying. LOL Better bring the SHOPPING cart for burly dudes! LOL
I have heard that vinyl is making a comeback.
I would never download music and I still haven´t learned how to do it.
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I'd be buying a whole heap more 
