Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
Switched on Pop
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The CD Era - Taylor Swift's First CD
Taylor Swift released her first album in 2006. In the CD era you had to go to the store and buy a physical copy on a CD of a song. Now we live in an intellectual property business where A lot of these things are never actually even printed they just get put out for digital distribution. Most of them have shut down We no longer have our virgin megastore selling all of our CDs to usOur tower records Yeah, these companies have been replaced by technology distributors Spotify and then all of our big tech overlords Apple Google Amazon.
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