Comments on: And yet, we wonder… http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-yet-we-wonder/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Bryan Murley http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-yet-we-wonder/#comment-2487 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:52:36 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/and-yet-we-wonder/#comment-2487 The thing that concerns me is how often the Forrester numbers were repeated as if they were gospel, not only in the weblogs, but in the pages and websites of traditional media. It is irresponsible to trumpet numbers that seem so enormously out of whack (65 percent decline?). And as for unbundled music, as I was reading this I also purchased a single track from an artist I'd never heard of - Erin McKeown - after hearing it on Pandora. I may never buy another song by her, but I definitely wanted that song. Good for the consumer - good for the artist, I say. The thing that concerns me is how often the Forrester numbers were repeated as if they were gospel, not only in the weblogs, but in the pages and websites of traditional media. It is irresponsible to trumpet numbers that seem so enormously out of whack (65 percent decline?).

And as for unbundled music, as I was reading this I also purchased a single track from an artist I’d never heard of - Erin McKeown - after hearing it on Pandora. I may never buy another song by her, but I definitely wanted that song. Good for the consumer - good for the artist, I say.

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