music goes usb?

A'kum n ello..

my father once told me that later,dvd will be no more...and after cassettes already gone and vcds nearly dead,dvd may follow later...

i thought my father said that bcos he didn't want to buy an external dvd-player for my laptop....

but nope...dvd may gone in few years...cos audio cd that singers use for their album will later be replaced by USB!...

yup2..USB flash drive....

and the first person(i think so cos i never heard anybody done it before) will be ayumi hamasaki...

read this:

Ayumi Hamasaki's tenth original album, "NEXT LEVEL," marks a new stage in the era of digital music. With the industry gradually shifting away from CDs, Hamasaki has decided to make the album available to fans on a USB flash drive.

USB distribution has been tried by indies artists before, but this is a first for a major label in Japan. The USB album will be released in limited quantity on the same day as the regular CD version on March 25. "NEXT LEVEL" will be released in a total of 4 different packages, including a CD+DVD combination. The USB edition will include all 13 tracks from the regular CD, 6 music videos, and a lyric booklet.

The USB flash drive itself will have a capacity of 2 GB. The album will take up about 800 MB, while the remaining 1.2 GB of space is free to use. At a price of 6,800 yen, the USB version is said to be a bargain, as typical USB drives reportedly sell for around 4,000 to 5,000 yen.

The USB will be packaged in a case the same size as a normal CD case, making it easy to display in stores. Oricon will apparently include the USB drive version in its sales tracking.

Hamasaki explained, "As the way we listen to music changes from day to day, I looked at things from the listener's perspective and decided to sell it this way."

souce:dilaChan@jpopasia

pretty nice eh?...and people even thought this is a bargain..
it's bargain for usb,but not for cds...
cos cds in japan sell about 3000yen..and that's cost more than rm100(note:japanese currency is really high.thus,the price of their cd is really high also)...so,maybe the usb that will replace cd album will be twice the price...

so,eventhough the economy is worsening,people just have many ideas to show that music is really too expensive...

k now.
ta~!

[i read back again,indie artistes already done it.but ayumi hamasaki is the first major label artist to do it]