50 minutes, 59 seconds

Violent Entity
Mechanized Division

I was reading the other day somewhere that music retailers are sounding the alarm that this Christmas season may be the last hurrah for the CD. After that, market forces will compel the industry to abandon the format and focus its sales efforts on downloadable music. Now, this could be merely crying wolf too early, but there's probably a hint of truth to the prediction.

And yet I continue to invest in CDs. Which, to tell you the truth, is starting to give me anxiety. Is it the modern-day equivalent of hoarding typewriter ribbons at the dawn of the PC age? No, probably not. At least you can feed CDs into your computer and rip the music into MP3 files; you couldn't exactly reuse the typewriter ribbons on anything except another typewriter.

But still, the CDs take up a lot of space--I'm on the verge of having to buy another six-foot-tall CD shelf, my fifth--and once they're no longer the coin of the realm, so to speak, what will I do with them? Rip the music, then sell them? Who will buy them?

The CD is dead! Long live the CD.

Also today:

50:57 Kill Memory Crash, American Automatic
50:55 In the Nursery, Lingua
50:55 Letum, The Entrance to Salvation
50:54 Schyzzo.com, Interfear's Network
50:53 Null Factor, Purity
50:52 Kattoo, Megrim
50:51 Raison d'Être, In Sadness, Silence, and Solitude
50:50 In Strict Confidence, Herzattacke
New arrival! 73:37 Steve Roach, Still
New arrival! 73:31 Steve Roach, First Light
New arrival! 73:14 Steve Roach, Sleep Chamber
50:50 Schattenschlag, Twisted Mind of Perversion
50:49 Thanacid, Morphine Soda
50:47 Laharis, Unpolitical Alchemy
50:47 Selaxon Lutberg, Cold House of Love