Tag: cd

  • The Agonising Death of the Physical Soundtrack Album

    The Agonising Death of the Physical Soundtrack Album

    A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the issues surrounding getting hold of physical copies of the Dune soundtrack albums in physical form. In summary, two of the three (!) are available as CDs, but at surprisingly high prices, and seemingly not mass produced at traditional CD pressing plants. A Digression Into Producing CDs…

  • HMV

    A few thoughts on the new difficulties faced by HMV.  In part this is response to some utter nonsense I’ve read online, and some of the news reports surrounding HMV heading into administration for the second time in five years.  There are undoubtedly structural problems with how music is sold in 2019, but I think there are multiple…