"Exploding" album scenario

[JOELTLE515 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/10/2006 4:29:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
sroundtable at aol.com writes:

> After all, we have seen critically acclaimed albums from McCartney and The 
> Stones do only lukewarm sales, and those were promoted in a big way.

that was pretty much the point i've been trying to get to on this subject. 
really good albums that came out these days don't sell like they used to, if you 
don't count "american idiot" anyway.