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Since I don’t have your book, can (or did) you justify the premise that people in the past behaved as you describe?

People don’t listen to all the music they purchase? Am I the only person who listens to his 19 GB of CDs in alphabetical order by song title? Sure, it takes about three months or so to go through them all, but I listen to each of my tunes just as much as the other tunes that way. Switched on the last rotation to alphabetical by album title. Rather wish that Windows Media Player could handle random play by album draw without replacement….

As for buying tracks vs full albums, I still pick full albums from Audio Lunchbox. Buying individual tracks is irritating. Would much rather buy full albums, then delete unwanted songs if they prove irritating after a couple of listens.

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Doesn’t your point confirm Tyler’s point? Tyler said that legal record sales are falling.

You say people’s music collection(legal+illegal) has exploded. Both of these facts can go hand in hand and support each other assuming that downloading illegal songs is cheaper comapred to buying it legally for a certain demographic(young college students) and your sample is predominantly comprised of this demographic.

I think favourite songs are way overrated since music is primarily a singaling device within peer groups. I think the falling record sales are driven primarily by a) to some extent by illegal file sharing b) to a greater extent by the supply of a much greater number of peer signalling devices like shoes, clothes, online memberships, etc which to a great extent is the triumph of marketing in the American society.

You’ve been able to “sample” CDs in record/department stores for a good while now, I’d say since at least a couple years before widespread music downloading.

I remember sampling cassette tapes (!) in the late 80s in a music store.

So if people can sample music in advance, and know in advance what they will like, music sales will plummet.

Really? But aren’t purchases of music a function of perceived value? In a condition where I consistently enjoy the music I purchase, won’t I tend to keep on buying more as compared to a situation where I often find that I regret my purchases and wonder why I wasted the money?

No, I think the obvious explanations are the right ones:

1. Music can be duplicated perfectly and distributed instantly by end users (and at zero cost).

2. Competition from other forms of home entertainment (in particular — the Internet, computer gaming, and video). Forgetting about the net, compared to, say, 1980, the cost of movies has declined dramatically, and video games have exploded).

Steve Sailer: Do you really think people are more satisfied with music today than in, say, 1967 or 1979?

Well, they certainly should be, since virtually everything available in 1967 or 1979 is available today (with higher quality, greater convenience, and at a lower price).

Which points to a serious problem for producers of new music — the long tail. To a far greater extent than in the past, new recorded music must compete with the whole body of old recorded music.

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