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MAC USERS AND OZZY FANS BUY MORE CDs

 Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 1:04pm by

Ozzy - Black RainAmidst the news that Ozzy Osbourne’s latest ho-hum release Black Rain has been certified gold and AC/DC’s classic Back in Black just crossed the 22 million units sold in the U.S. mark, was this interesting bit: according to a report on Yahoo News [via Buzzgrinder] half of all Mac users in the third quarter paid to download tunes, compared with 16% of their PC-using counterparts. In addition, 32% of Mac users reported buying CDs in the third quarter of this year, compared with 28% of PC users.”

So, for you 14.5% of MetalSucks readers who use Macs and 84.33% of MetalSucks PC users… where do you fall?

-VN

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  • http://countshockula.blogspot.com ezra

    Mac user. I pay for downloads on e-music mostly. I also rabidly buy real CDs. ‘course, my guitar player owns the local record store. Gotta support your friends.

  • Anthony

    PC User.

    I just download most of music anymore. Most Mac users can’t figure out how to download music on their computers. That’s why they use Macs.

  • http://last.fm/user/cooperaa Aaron Cooper

    I have a mac, I download lots of music, I don’t really buy CDs anymore except ones I really enjoy or feel like I should support the artist.

    Last CD I purchased: As I Lay Dying’s “An Ocean Between Us”
    CD before that: I have no idea…might not have even been in 2007! No wait… Children of Bodom’s “Aren’t You Dead Yet?” and In Flames’ “Come Clarity”. Also excellent albums.

  • NuMallCore Pwns Yo Mama

    PC user. I’m probably 70% download (from eMusic or Amazon, no DRM in my music please!). The rest of my purchases are CDs… I usually discover a lot of bands on eMusic (Baroness, Exodus, Into Eternity), but if there is a band I really like that has an album coming out, I’ll buy the CD (BTBAM, AILD, Soilwork).

    Side note… I still bet the actual number of album purchases by a PC user is higher than Mac. The reason being that there are more PC users than Mac users. If we have 100 PC users and 16% of them buy CDs, then 16 people bought CDs. If we have 10 Mac users and 32% of them buy CDs, then 3.2 people bought CDs… Never mind about that .8 of a person. Who knows what the hell he does.

  • NuMallCore Pwns Yo Mama

    BTW… not knocking on the Mac users. They’re pretty slick machines.

  • http://www.allmetalresource.com ALLMETALRESOURCE

    Man, yet another reason for mac users to be more elitist. “We are totally more loyal fans than PC users!”

  • http://DarkTwinCities.com devil

    PC user. I don’t dig Macs.

    I spend most all my disposable income on liquor and Cds. I don’t like to download music.

  • hegster

    I buy CD’s if the whole thing is worth it. I recently picked up the Justice CD and the new Thrice. And before those two the new A7X and ETID albums. I just like having a hard copy better than a file on a computer that could be erased from existence with the click of a mouse.

    Btw, the only reason Ozzy sold that many CDs is because of the tickets that came with them, because it sure as hell couldn’t have been for the synthesized and auto-tuned mess that is Black Rain.

  • miguel_g

    I also like to buy CDs with my disposble income. I’m from Peru, and here Cds are pretty expensive, so buying Cds here is like a guilty pleasure if you have the money. I don’t hesitate buying an album if the album is just damn good, of if I really like the artist’s work. The fact that more Mac users buy more albums is just a mere coincidence.

  • Seth

    I am a musician and have years of bad karma coming to me for my music thievery habit. Its just too easy and convenient for me to download illegally. I try to justify it by going to lots of shows and buying artist merchandise, but I know that is an ill-fated justification for not supporting the music that makes my life infinitely better than it would be otherwise. That being said I will continue to illegally download bcuz I can access lots of music much faster, it skips the step of ripping a cd before it goes on my POD, and I hate record labels. Also I’m cheap.