The UK was performing well compared with the US, where CD sales were down 20% in the first three months of the year, he added.

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MP3 (and other) file formats would combine with increasingly affordable home computers to gently, but definitively, chip away at the CD's monopoly, bringing us to the present day.

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If you have a demo CD of your best tracks then let us have a copy along with a written biography telling us about your music.

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Those shows are now on "They All Played for Us, " a lavish 4-CD set with a hardbound book of commentary and colorful photography, released by the label last month.

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The US music industry is already battling internet piracy and CD-copying, which it has blamed for a 9% slump in CD sales.

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The international bond fund was down 1% til mid-February and the emerging market bond was off over 2%, while the US government bond fund was behaving like a bank CD, up 0.1%.

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Over the last 30 years, he has provided us respite from our imposing computer screens, clunky CD players, or feature phones which (seems so hard to believe) did nothing more than make phone calls.

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His new CD is called "Lalo Schifrin and Friends, " and he joined us from the studios of NPR West.

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This is high quality audio and our research tells us people can't readily distinguish between 320kbps MP3s and CD quality wavs.

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And the young people from the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program who will perform for us a little later on, they have even recorded their own CD.

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