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Why Albums Don’t Matter Anymore

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Why Albums Don’t Matter Anymore

There’s a HUGE disconnect somewhere. Everywhere I went for the last 2 weeks, somebody was talking to me about Michael Jackson. It’s died down in the past few days. But for a while, I was hearing about the tremendous surge in album sales after his death. All of a sudden, there were all these people [...]

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