CD's have been around for forty years,
in that time the companies behind them
have both said that they are the best way
for the public to hear their favourite artists
and gambled and lost as their material
has been found to be easy to copy,
and thereby reduce the company revenues,
such that artists get more from T shirt sales
whilst on tour, than they can earn
from writing and recording new music.
What I find harder to fathom
is how lazy the record companies were,
when they persuaded consumers to love
this new format for conveying music,
but then again from the billions of discs
sold to the public needed no persuasion.
Beyond the simplicity of laziness
why did the music industry settle
on a format for selling their wares
where they could have predicted
that the excess of shoddy product
would lead to public boredom
on a scale where random piles
of unsaleable CD's occupy the corners
of charity shops uninterested in them,
where they stay for years unlooked at,
waiting for something more saleable to take their place?
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