7/1/2004

WOW.

Color this unlikely: Wilco’s new album, A Ghost Is Born, debuted at #8 on the pop charts this week.

Posted by Mark @ 7:33 am | | Permalink
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6 Comments

  1. That very cool.

    Now, is it a good album?

    Comment by zombyboy — 7/1/2004 @ 8:13 am

  2. From the snippets I heard in the music store (via the red dot sample headphones), I was unimpressed. So much so that I passed on the opportunity to drop $15 on the album and chose the new Peter Mulvey instead.

    Comment by bryan — 7/1/2004 @ 8:26 am

  3. It sold 81,000 copies and debuted at #8.

    The record industry really is hurting.

    Comment by dw — 7/1/2004 @ 12:26 pm

  4. Maybe if they’d quit giving us what we’ve already got too much of . . .

    It’s very interesting that the #8 pop album is one that’s been available for free on the Internet for a few months now.

    Comment by Mark Hasty — 7/1/2004 @ 1:05 pm

  5. We went through this before with YHF. The people who end up buying the album are the ones who want the hard copy version, not the electronic version. It’s similar to people who will buy the hardcover of a book after reading the paperback.

    That’s what I don’t get with the record companies — why not offer electronic files where you have a single license to them and thus can loan/give them to friends but not copy them, then make the CD $20 and sell it with the CD + electronic files? They’d make plenty of money that way.

    Or else, they could just slash the price of the CDs down to $10 per and flood the market with cheap music, undercutting the value of MP3s.

    Either plan seems logical, but the record companies are to the emerging downloadable music economy what NCR and Sperry were to the personal computer.

    Comment by dw — 7/1/2004 @ 1:24 pm

  6. Hunt The Wumpus was an amusing game, at least by 1984 standards.

    Comment by Archie Leach — 7/5/2004 @ 2:43 am

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