Sean Brennan wrote:

When you release an album you spend sometimes years collecting and recording your best material, then it only has maybe 6 months on store shelves before it's shipped back to the labels and essentially in limbo (because shelf space is so scare now due to all music stores closing due to filesharing and the number of other CDs competing for shelf space). The end result is only newer and larger, more corporate sponsored artists get shelf space. So the result of filesharing has been that indie artsts are driven out of the business with nowhere to distribute their product.
Isn't it better to distribute CDs via Internet these days?


No one IS buying CDs anymore, anyway.

Fans are still buying CDs and will be doing it anyway.