This Is Just Depressing
And it goes beyond the gratuitous use of clip art in the source article.
40% of UK folks surveyed can't name a legal music download site. The tagline about only knowing about Amazon and iTunes doesn't bother me too much - people have resources to get on those services with little effort, so your recordings can be in the same store as the big boys. But almost have of the surveyed can't even get that far?
If they can't name it, they aren't using it. And that doesn't translate into purchased physical copies, either. Change is inevitable, I suppose, but would a little haste be such a bad thing?
The fans can connect directly with artists now - hell, how hard would it be to just ASK where the music is available for purchase? I'm sure they'd be more than happy to let the fans know?