Cheaper production costs also allow the studios to sell discs at lower prices to consumers.

Let's say you own a store that sells compact discs on Main Street.

One will sell records, tapes and compact discs, the other, electronics.

Fantasia would eventually sell 14.4 million videocassettes and discs.

It will not sell compact discs with obscene lyrics.

What they can't do is just sell discs because they feel like it.

"I get that, but you could play that angle and sell discs out the yang."

At first they sold single-sided discs with a recording in wax on top of a cement base.

EMI was the first company to sell flat discs, records as we know them.

Some small labels are offering free music downloads as well as selling discs.