vAMP Virtual Album MP3 Player: To Replace CDs altogether?

Everybody in the music industry's moaning about the decline in sales. While it's true CD sales are declining, artists and studios still get a cut off of digital music sales. Music bars selling physical CDs however, can't do anything about the ever increasing popularity of digital music. Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? To address the issue, MediaStreet came up with the vAMP Virtual Album MP3 Player which aims to replace CDs off of music bars' racks. MediaStreet touts it as the "smallest, thinnest, fully functional MP3 player."

The concept is simple. Basically, the 0.7 ounce vAMP will sell preloaded with a whole album of an artist, with the album cover gracing the front of the MP3 player. Since the vAMP has a 1GB capacity, you can load it with other tracks of your choice. Other than that, anyone who buys the vAMP will also get access to both mydigitalcontent.com and BEYOND.FM. The vAMP will cost US$27.99 when preloaded with an album and US$19.99 when empty. I got a question for you though: If you already got a portable media player, would you really buy all your favorite artists' albums in vAMP players?

Another pic after the jump.