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I'm sure many m4dbl0g readers bought a "Music Product, defined as a prerecorded compact disc, a cassette or a vinyl album" between January 1, 1995 and December 22, 2000, so you'll want to cash in on the price-fixing settlement, where the nice folks at the corporate rock industry admitted no guilt. Through BoingBoing, I learned of this site, which enables you to file a claim online. Once funds are disbursed, you may receive between $5-$20 back from the evil media megacorps.

Here are two more germane joints. First, a story from The New York Times about how the music industry is adapting to new distribution technologies like file-sharing and CD-burning. And, via BoingBoing, a piece that uses possibly specious logic to suggest the music industry invented the purported bust in sales due to file-sharing by contorting sales figures. I certainly agree that the recession impacted record sales more than file-sharing, but I question his method of dividing total sales by the number of releases. Its my understanding that the major labels make most of their money selling records from their back catalogs, rather than new releases.