Tuesday, January 23, 2007

End of Compact Discs?

It's Tuesday only but now I have already started counting down to the weekends. Feel kinda guilty but hey isn't that's life supposed to be if you are just a normal 9 to 5'er? How many of you can really proclaim you enjoy your job? Maybe 1 out of 50 or 100 perhaps. I am a person who is dedicated but I do not love my job. Do you think that is contradictory? In certain sense perhaps.

I once read, do not fall in love with a company because in this age of technological progress, what is normally certain a couple of years back may no longer be certain today. Just to take an example. When compact discs were released in late 80s, it heralded the end of the cassette tapes. CD's were the new toy for everyone then. In barely 5 years of its release, the much loved cassettes were already near the end of life. CD's had its heyday from mid 90s to sometime 2004 to 2005.

By 2007, the sales of CD's had dropped dramatically I suppose. I no longer buy CD's for more than 12 months because I can always get the legalised songs through MP3 in websites. Another reason is because CDs are too expensive here! Even favourite store like Towers Record had decided to call it a day! In 2007, we should expect to see more albums released CD'less and only available through online MP3 stores like iTunes. If you need a hardcopy to keep, you may have to settle for a DVD that come with more contents.

I will surely miss those days when I was younger in those music stores browsing for the CD's of the favourite artistes.