OK people....take a chill pill here.

First, I will state that I think it's a shame that CD's are a dying format too. I firmly stand on board with everybody who has already posted about wanting a physical product to hold and read and on and on...

...But not once has Jimmy said that the only thing they'll ever release is MP3's through itunes. You people are all jumping to conclusions and putting words in his mouth!

What's to say they won't release songs available for purchase through their own website (NOT itunes because itunes is shit...) in ultra-high quality formats with high-res image files of all the artwork and lyrics? You pay through the site, download everything, print off the images, burn your own CD, and you're done.

What he's talking about is releasing songs in small clusters as opposed to a full length LP all at once. Read the quotes again. He even talks about the small clusters of songs building up to something bigger. So basically you DO have an album....it's just released in pieces that YOU get to re-assemble.

...Or maybe they do the work of putting together the physical copies themselves, but they can just do supply and demand....however many orders there are for them, that's how many they produce.

As long as the sound quality is totally top notch, and I can get the artwork too, I would have absolutely no problem whatsoever getting the material in the way I just described. Yes, I would miss going to the record store on release day and seeing fellow fans as excited as I am. But, the times they are a-changin'....