"nobody does it that way"

I find it interesting that so many people exist, yet so few of them seem to own any one particular album.  Ok, ok -- let's just forget for a moment that "owning" music is a worthless pursuit.  Back when music was being sold without questions of utility or morality, you could often hear about a small handful of albums most years that sell 5++ million copies.  For example -- the 3rd highest selling album of 2002 was Avril Lavigne's LET GO, a nostalgic one for me personally.  It has sold - all together - 16 million copies throughout the world.  Let's look at US domestic sales and suppose sales of used copies are included in that.  Let's say 20 million.  

According to the US Census beer-o's website, the US population (nobody wants to do a citizen count...), as of 2019, was well over 300 million.  Let's say there was a bit of a population jump between 2004 and 2019.

250 million sound like a fair estimate?  I think it was more than that.  But let's just suppose....

20 million people (give or take) bought LET GO by Avril Lavigne.  That is less than 10% of the entire US population.
You might say "well, she was only the 3rd best selling.  Two other artists far surpassed that"  Ok, so let's say 20 million copies of whatever bile the Backstreet Boys churned out that year sold 50 million.  100 million people bought the album because used copies don't count.

How do people who criticize boy bands escape being assassinated by lynching?  You'd think of that 50% someone would be not only vapid in their appreciation of art, but arrogant & crazy enough to do something like that.

Anyway.
So basically, every GOOD piece of music that sells is bought by weirdos.

I keep hearing people talk about other people as if they know the personal lives of each and every other human being.  "Nobody looks at the nutrition facts"  "Nobody listens to that"  "Nobody says that"  "Nobody buys that"  My mom swore up and down that a camera lens for a SONY camera would sit in my Amazon storefront inventory for years and years because "nobody buys cameras anymore"  Yes, an increasingly small % of people have reason or want to buy a camera.  That does not mean that NOBODY buys cameras.  In fact, I'd suggest that the only reason MOST people HAVE cameras is because cell phones come with them.  Before cell phones, camcorders were not something that everybody had.
And people keep saying CDs are not worth buying because "nobody buys CDs"  Yes, they have shrunk in their usage.  They may or may not continue to do so.  They have year after year for over a decade shrunk in usage.  Cassette tapes were the same way.  Guess what?  They're making a comeback.  So is vinyl.  CDs are like rich people.  Everyone on the planet can be rich, but most of them will only be so temporarily.  It is only a very small -- but nonetheless existent -- % of people who will stay rich throughout their duration of stay on Earth.  That analogy is very abstract but the truth of it is quite evident when you dig into it.
anyway.
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Just writing this down because I was envisioning a possible argument with someone who tends to think about things that way.   rrr