I was thinking today -- what was the last CD I bought? I think it was Our Lady Peace - Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. That was 3 years ago. Whether it was conscious or not, this is the last CD I thought was worth spending that much money on.

This rang home when I was listening to XFM tonight. They had some rock show on instead of regular programming, and the guy did a pretty good job summing up the problems with the music industry. Chief among them was the cost of CDs.

Sure CDs don't wear out the same way as tapes do, but they are still fragile. You can scratch them or snap them in half. You fumble with them trying to put them in any player - and don't even get me started on CD cases. Then to top it all off, the metal CDs are made with actually eats itself over time, leaving you with a useless piece of polyethylene. Records don't do that -- it seems like we're going backwards, doesn't it? But I digress ...

Until the industry makes a format I like, I'm not buying it. Pure and simple. I'll listen to the radio (air and Internet) if I have to. My money isn't going into yet another dead medium. So figure it out boys and girls, because it's the music lovers like me who sink their money into it ... and I've been saving a lot lately.