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"It's not radio. It's college radio. There's nobody listening. Nobody. Maybe, like, three guys in a dorm somewhere."  After a then-senior at Boston University Howard Stern crafted "the single worst moment in radio history" after toppling over a pile of carts (long-lost cousins of the long-lost eight-track), halting a spin of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" in his hit 1997 box office biopic "Private Parts," the eventual "King of All Media" was convinced that his radio career had ended after mere rotations of a 33 on campus radio station WTBU.  In the film, a friend incredulously listens to Stern's drama over the gaffe. "It's not radio. It's college radio," he counters, seemingly more as fact than an attempt to ease the budding air talent's horror.

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It’s been said that rock stars have the best jobs. But unlike some jobs, the position of rock star isn’t handed to you on a silver platter. For some, it took years of grinding away at dead-end jobs before the opportunity to do music full time became a reality. We’re all jealous now, but take a look at what these music idols were doing back in their younger days.

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             Album sales continue to decline slightly because of an accelerating drop in CD sales, but digital track passed the billion-unit mark for the first time in the first nine months of 2012

U.S. album sales are down 4.4% to 218.4 million units for the first nine months of the year, fueled by CD sales dropping to 129.7 million units from 151.6 million units in the corresponding period last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan. While digital album sales are up 15.3% to 85.5 million units, the 11.3 million-unit gain from last year's tally at the nine month point is only about half of the 21.9 million unit decline in CDs. Like digital, vinyl is also up dramatically -- a 16.3% increase to 3.2 million units from 2.7 million units. But it's still only about 1.5% of total U.S. album sales.

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