In the rush to dress and photograph pets for their seasonal card picture, find the perfect theme sweater, and swig as much eggnog as possible in the two-week window of social acceptability, it's possible some music-industry news may have slipped by you. While the 21 percent drop in music sales (that includes a doubling of digital sales) and the continued job cuts at EMI weren't a big secret, the impact of Amazon's addition of the Warner catalog snuck up on pretty much everybody. A DRM-free music store that works with any type of music player is yet another chink in the colossus that it is Apple. With the Zune's price drop and added coolness (if the color brown is cool), 2008 could be a year of increased choice for music consumers. Some other top stories? The relationship between Jay-Z and Def Jam is over, and Thom Yorke enumerated his reasons for leaving EMI. [Hypebot]