CD sales are down in the first half of 2006 by 3.4 percent. Yes downloads are up, but they don’t make up the gap. And “cassettes, are on their way to join vinyl and 8-tracks on Boot Hill. Cassette music sales fell a whopping 54 percent in the first half of 2006, peddling only 632,00 units, compared to the 1.3 million tapes sold in the first two quarters of ’05.”