Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Call me na&#207;ve, but I thought the Hi-Fi Wars were merely in-house squabbles. Yes, meter-carrying objectivists and wide-eyed subjectivists can carry on worse than Republicans and Democrats in Congress. But I always figured that once someone cues up <I>Dark Side of the Moon</I> or <I>Kind of Blue</I>, the partisanship subsides as we revel in our common passion for music and sound. C'mon, everybody&mdash;group hug! Okay, I exaggerate.

Last week, the <A HREF="http://www.riaa.com">Recording Industry Association of America</A> released its annual demographic survey of 3051 music purchasers in the United States. "Several interesting profiles emerged in 1998, including the boom in R&B and Gospel, as well as the sharp decline in Rock sales," said Hilary Rosen, RIAA president and CEO. "Demographic shifts also continued, with women outbuying men for the second year, and a drop in purchases among 15-to-29-year-olds, contrasted by significant growth among those age 35 and older." Last month, the RIAA released its annual year-end shipments statistics, which revealed the size of the domestic sound-recording industry in 1998 to be $13.7 billion.