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Competition has retailers singing a new tune: exclusive CD deals

By Steve Morse
Globe Staff / November 7, 2005

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With more music fans grooving to iPods and plugging into digital devices, frantic record labels and artists are doing whatever they can to prop up sagging CD sales. The best they've come up with so far: ''exclusive content" deals that drive consumers to specific retailers. (Full article: 1053 words)

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