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Guest blogger Paul Jarvis: In pursuit of the greenest CD

By Guest blogger: Paul Jarvis, Mojave | Image: Mojave | Published: January 22, 2009
Every report from the last few years has revealed a decline in physical CD sales and a rise in digital album sales for music. Most music fans will tell you they don’t buy CDs, and all the CDs they own just sit collecting dust (or, worse, are now in a landfill) since the music is now on their iPod. So it would seem CDs are going the way of the cassette and eight-track, to be replaced by mp3s and iTunes. As an independent band that’s trying very hard to be environmentally conscious in every decision we make, Mojave opted to not make any physical CDs for our album Stories and just sell it through digital distribution such as iTunes, AmazonMP3 and CDbaby—so we wouldn’t contribute to the millions of tons a year that CDs add to landfills.
"We learned the hard way that if someone wants to buy our music and we give them a business card instead, they probably aren’t going to buy the music later..."
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