Coolfer: Rolling Stone on 2005: “The Worst Year Ever”:Album sales have dropped 21% since 2000 but…Sales of digital tracks rose to 353 million from 141 million in 2004, and sales of digital albums rose to 16.2 million from 5.5 million last year.The time is ripe for podcasting and using RSS to distribute your music. As I said in a previous post, it possible for musicians to participate in music publishing on better technological footing than the major labels.