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Actually my point was that there are a lot of people out there who maybe liked one of his songs pre-iTunes but weren't inclined to buy the whole album so they just forgot about it. Then when he died they realized they could now buy just that one song which is why he's getting these monster sales numbers.

From that I extrapolated that you can make a lot of money if not more money from a bunch of micro purchases.



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