The Pop Fist

ECONOMIC Between the years of 2000 and 2008, music made a sharp decline in sales and distribution. In fact, album and music sales topped in 1999, with a whopping 260 million albums sold, but declined to 250 million albums sold in the year of 2000. Record Album sales continued to decline each year and hit a low in 2007 of 140 million albums sold, matching sales records of 1977 when sales began to make a steady incline. (Stop music theft, 2011) However these sales do not reflect digital downloads which increased the number to over 800 million in the year 2000 but then declined to a combined download and album sales total to just over 300 million in the year 2012. (Saving Country Music, 2012) In the UK, a survey of people between the ages of 12 and 74 years old have been accustomed to downloading music. However a figure of about 8 million people in the UK, have admitted to pirating music through illegal downloads off of the internet, which many claim to be destroying the pockets of recor...

(*In case u missed it my piece on Sundays game) Phils steal Sox Mojo Fair and WRECKTANGLE Jxsonville . The game (Superbowl) Sunday was hypnotic. The split crowd sat on edge as the birds struggled to maintain the lead. Eagles took control early on as the Pats, like some farmer ran around with a bunch of cotton gin to spoil their own withered comeback record and protect their amnsety with a 22 gauge to plow up their (birds') rear ends to take over the lead. Only trouble was the birds kept rushing ahead blowing the trailing farmers further back intent on making Brady eat his greasy deflated skins and ravage on the reputation of being a solid pig fuc*er. Without cheating Pats looked like country boy farmers struggling to protect their sheep from a bunch of rowdy eagles swooping down and raping their cattle. There was no way to shake the birds from hawking at the scoreboard and taking the offense. Every time the pats rushed on, the eagles took control delving in two point conversi...