So there you have it, folks - the CD as a format is officially dead. Why? Because Kanye West says so.
The bigmouthed rapper posted a series of tweets yesterday that announced that he was no longer going to release albums on CD, only stream them from here on in. As part-owner of streaming service Tidal, he would say that.
Uuuuum... hi everybody!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
I was thinking about not making CDs ever again... Only streaming
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
the Yeezus album packaging was an open casket to CDs r.i.p
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
uuuuuuum, so there it is... No more CDs from me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
In related news, West has also been speaking about his argument with Deadmau5 (or Dead-mow-five, as he calls him) to paparazzi.
He accused the DJ - real name Joel Zimmerman - of hypocrisy, after a tweet from 2013 (below) was unearthed, that saw him apparently admit to using a pirated copy of a software programme on one of his albums. Zimmerman took West to task about allegedly illegally downloading a software programme called Serum in recent weeks, leading the rapper to say: "I think there are people in the music industry, realistically, as you saw with the deadmau5 thing, where he actually said he used it before", when questioned about the feud.
I used a pirated copy of sylenth on my last 4 albums. #TrueReveal
— dead mow cinco (@deadmau5) August 13, 2013
Zimmerman claims that he was being 'sarcastic' at the time, but it certainly sheds new light on the situation...