http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/music+cd PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1136 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1136 <span class="medium-normal">This article makes note of the decline in&nbsp;US&nbsp;CD sales&nbsp;in the past four years and highlights figures released by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The decline is attributed to&nbsp;Internet downloading because it has dramatically changed the way music is&nbsp;obtained and sold.&nbsp;In addition to acknowledging legal downloading the article spends time discussing illegal downloading of music through peer-to-peer file sharing systems.&nbsp; Also there is a discussion of the &quot;big box stores&quot; such&nbsp;as Best Buy and Wal-Mart that serve as the most successful&nbsp;music retailers presently.</span> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1139 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1139 <p class="medium-normal">This article asserts the belief that the new downloading craze will result in the closing of the big CD retail chains. Convenience and cheapness they claim wins.&nbsp;However the entire outlook is not negative, the article suggests that these retailers can survive the sweeping technological changes but only if they make some drastic changes and restructuring.</p>