The albums drops when?

Music consumption has never been higher -- (I got the radio blasting right now, sucking down tunes all day) -- so why's the music industry struggling for a clue on how to make some cash?

I'll take some blame -- I myself haven't bought a whole CD in years.

Why bother with the whole CD. I can get it online or on the radio -- "Physical album sales fell 20 percent to 362.6 million from 450.5 million," says CBS News. "While digital album sales rose 32 percent to a record 65.8 million units."

Depending on what side of the fence you sit -- iTunes either killed the music industry or freed it (free being a bad word here). The "troubling trend" according to CBS is the recording industry has -- "a harder time maintaining profits when consumers buy single songs instead of albums."

Wonder if that NY Times article -- "Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says" -- might change things in 2009.

They explain how Apple now removed their copying restrictions so people can -- "freely shift the songs they buy on iTunes among computers, phones and other digital devices."

“They aren’t going to get a huge amount of money from this new arrangement," says the article (pointing to a compromise between music companies and Apple on prices).

Adding -- "in an ailing music industry, anything that can provide more money will be better than the status quo.”

'Gotta wonder if that will put the final nail on the CD coffin...

'not like anyone I know is running out to buy one...I'ma stay right here near my radio...'singing my ass off.