(313) Digital Downloads

[Jason Brunton]

Alright peepz- a quick question for the more tech-savvy minded  
amongst you:

How many people actually buy digital download music whether from more  
mainstream portals like I-tunes or more specialist ones like  
Bleep.com??  I've spoken to quite a few label owners (all of them  
from smaller independant labels) but nobody seems to be making much  
income from it- any thoughts on the the current, and future, state of  
the format?

I can't actually imagine ever paying £1 for a track in a less than  
perfect format and albums seem pretty expensive when you compare them  
to a normal CD which has cover art etc- I'm not totally against the  
idea but it's not really doing it for me at the moment.  What chall  
think?

cheers

Jason