Importance of digipaks

Last week in lesson we started to talk about the importance of digipaks to an artist and their image. A digipak does several things for an artist. An album promotes the artists music and image at the same time. The front cover of the album will usually have a picture of the artist or a symbol that they are trying to promote or mention during their music. CD covers nowadays are becoming more alternative and artists are always trying experimenting with new ideas and making their album cover more interesting than the last or somebody else's they've seen. Students like me, and others in my class don't tend to go out and buy a CD because we don't feel the actual CD in our hands is much better than having the music on our ipod which has been downloaded off iTunes, etc. CDs are becoming much less popular to our generation, however our teacher mary sad she likes the CD in her hand because she feels like she has more then just the song playing on her ipod. Digipaks include more than a CD though, they contain the lyrics sometimes of each song, thank yous towards people who have helped out with the making of the CD and songs. They are a very important and essential part of the music industry but i believe are fading away because less and less people are buying them.