Stats are made to be broken, rigged, twisted etc_

Statistics are completely useless in this day and age. The problem is that laws are passed based on whopping distortions of the truth.

All of which brings me back once again to the ongoing saga of the music industry blaming everything on downloader’s. On the TV show "Tonight" with Trevor Mcdonald we were actually given a lot of real reasons which play the largest part.

Yes CD Single sales are down which we are being told is because of downloader’s. What we're not told is album sales are up because people don't want to pay a few pounds for a CD single when they can get the Album for a few pounds more.

Another VERY valid reason is once upon a time CD singles were not played on radios until the day they came out. Now you would have heard the song so many times before it hits the shelves you no longer want to buy it. A very well known BBC Radio DJ actually said on TV that he didn't buy singles anymore for this very reason.

And all of this still doesn't include the people who wouldn't buy the albums anyway if they could no longer download them.

The music industry ripped us off by over charging for decades and still they cheat, twist and lie with every spoken statistic which spews out from their fat cat mouths.