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…are conflicted. Typical.

Only a few days ago Morgan Stanley released their report on teen media consumption, in which teenager Matthew Robson said this about teens buying music…

They are very reluctant to pay for it (most never having bought a CD) and a large majority (8/10) downloading it illegally from file sharing sites.

And now today techrader runs the following news, showing the results of a recent study of music buying trends in the UK…

1,000 music fans took part in the Speakerbox survey – conducted by The Leading Question and Music Ally – which is a yearly look at how music is consumed in the UK.

According to the research, 73 per cent of music fans are still happy buying CDs rather than downloading, with 66 per cent of 14 to 18 year olds still happy to purchase a CD.

So which is it…most teens have never bought a CD with 80 percent just downloading music for free, or two thirds are happy to buy CDs? Can both be true? Maybe neither are. Maybe such matters are too complex and individual to be summed up in a few pages of a single study, whatever the hype machine may say?

Just goes to show what Benjamin Disraeli said long ago…there are lies, damned lies, and studies of teenagers in the UK.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).