Record breaking: is the album dead?

Ian Astbury believes iTunes kas killed the album. And all the people who download single tracks are proving him right. But is it too soon to say RIP to the LP?This summer has seen the loss of many greats: the King of Pop, the king of psyche-garage-pop (Sky Saxon) and arguably the finest of British rock journalists, Steven Wells. I can surely be forgiven for failing to realise that the album died at the same time."Albums are dead," declared the Cult's Ian Astbury, no less, to the El Paso Times la...

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