http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004764.html Oh, wait, that didn't happen. The New York Times carries a Reuters wirestory on a 7% increase in music album sales for the first half of 2004 over 2003 (Album Sales in U.S. Reported Ahead of 2003). The short story... en-us http://www.silverspider.com/2004/album-sales-increase-p2p-blamed/ From The Importance of... comes word of a Reuters story reporting that albums sales increased for the first half of 2004 compared to the same period of 2003. Can you hear the media spin revving up...? I'm sure this will be kept on the down-low ...