Tag: CDS

Even though Jeanne-Claude, wife and partner in art to Christo, died at the end of last year, large-scale art interventions don't need to disappear. Not that we're comparing the creators of 'The Gates' (2005) and 'Running Fence' (1976) to Bruce Munro, the British lighting designer and creative mind behind 'CD Sea' -- a scattering of 600,000 compact discs over Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England ...

As much as we love digital technology here at Switched, we still cling to a certain amount of nostalgia for the simpler days; when the photorealism of a video game didn't matter and when we all enjoyed full-length albums instead of shuffling on our iPods like we have extreme cases of ADHD. While we're not about to pay for our hundreds of gigabytes worth of music to be converted to vinyl, we're ...

If you lived through the MP3 revolution and still managed to hold on to a few of those ancient relics known as CDs, they're probably in pretty bad shape. A few scratches here and there, though, don't necessarily mean that you have to toss your entire Van Halen box set out with the Thursday morning trash. [Ed. note: Although you should've done so with the Sammy Hagar era stuff long ago.] The only ...

The CD market has been dying a slow, inglorious death for more than a decade now, since consumers having long ago shifted to the quicker, easier digital download format. According to a new study, though, it's not just CD sales that are suffering, but the music industry as a whole -- including those vaunted download sales. A report from market research firm NPD shows that between 2007 and 2009, ...

That loud, persistent drone that you've been hearing for the past few years was just the collective lament of music purists everywhere. As the CD age has given way to the MP3 era, people of generations past have been bemoaning what they perceived as the demise of vinyl, and its irreproducible sound experience. It turns out, though, that commercially, at least, vinyl is alive and well. It just may ...

The book and music retailer Borders may soon be removing CDs and DVDs from its stores' shelves, according to a report in the Consumerist. Apparently, this past Monday, a Borders employee wrote the Consumerist, claiming that "most Borders [stores]" will remove 75-percent of their CD and DVD inventory over the next couple of months. According to this tipster, whose veracity has not been ...

Yep, it finally happened. One label has come forward and admitted that, for the first time, digital sales of its music have surpassed CDs. While many pundits asserted that loosing tunes via tiny downloadable files would instantaneously cause the deep-pocketed record labels to crumble as piracy ran rampant, the numbers tell a different story. In fact, music sales overall have declined from $14.6 ...

Perennial geek idol and gloomy music star Trent Reznor is not making any friends at his record label, Universal Media Group (UMG). At a concert Sunday night in Sydney, Reznor let loose on the music industry. Commenting on the fact that CD prices had not dropped after an outburst in May (see below), he asked, "Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. ...