Gen Y knows the CD isn't what it used to be. Record stores most certainly know it. The previously unimaginable growth of iPods and iTunes should have been a warning sign. Now, you can believe it. A Record exec has said the words -- "the CD as it is right now is dead". Okay, EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy couched his language a bit -- maybe the way politicians in our country do just before an election saying one thing and meaning another. But it's out there -- he said it and can't take it back -- the CD is dead. In the interest of full disclosure Levy went on to say, "You're not going to offer your mother-in-law&hellip
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