Another nail in the coffin for CDs.

Showing once again they’re one step behind the times, George over on Adhurl has a story on the record industry’s plans to distribute singles via $10 USB flash drive. Compared to current singles pricing and than the 800 lb. downloading gorilla in the room, that’s absurd. And at the rate technology evolves, I have to wonder now too when USB will go the way of the floppysaurus. Still, this feels more like a futile attempt to deal with the drop in sales of retail CDs than the industry doing something cool. Furthermore, if I don’t get artwork or a booklet with it, small as it may be even with current CD cases, and I’m getting basically the same song as the one I download, why do I even need to go into the store anymore? Except, okay, maybe to stop by Cinnabon. (Can’t help it. Those things are amazing.) Other than that?

iTunes or Amazon baby.

UPDATE: Even SanDisk is trying to get into the preloaded entertainment media game.

Tags: USB singles, iTunes, Cinnabon