The news that Sony were to stop sending out physical CD's for review purposes led to CMU giving five reasons why they felt that critics would rebel against the notion of reviewing 'streams' of the album. As well as legitimate concerns that listening to an album to review didn't just take place while sitting at a computer they also pointed out "that their reviewers were not paid for their work, and that a perk of the job was the get a CD in the post which, if they liked the album, they could keep it"... and of course if it was a pile of shit you could immediately flog it down the Record & Tape Exchange and speaking as someone who worked for the Melody Maker back in the 70's I can assure you that that was a nice little earner (allegedly *ahem*!!!)
Finally "a number of journalists pointed out that the PC technology being used by some media - especially regional and local media - is hardly bang up to date, with some still using versions of Windows which first surfaced in the 1990s. For these people many of the digital preview systems simply don't work."
WTF???
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