[polemikos]

Don't forget WinMX. Also very good!.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[StolarStorm]

Ahhh. but the music doesn't COST 35 cents to make... only to reproduce. The costs include studio expenses, royalties, promotion and much more. Granted, I do think that the record companies should drastically reduce the price they charge for music and sell it online. 16 bucks for a CD is absurd.

[StolarStorm]

Ahhh. but the music doesn't COST 35 cents to make... only to reproduce. The costs include studio expenses, royalties, promotion and much more. Granted, I do think that the record companies should drastically reduce the price they charge for music and sell it online. 16 bucks for a CD is absurd.

[upchuck]

I agree with Dvorak. It's time the "music industry" changed their business model to something more reasonable.

At $16 a pop, no way I'll buy a CD. But at $1.40 or even $3.40 you bet I would. I'd rather pay $3.40 and get top quality than download anyday.

[Imperialist]

I hope that riaa does not go back to tapes!!!!!!!!!!!

[dogbyte12]

If albums were great, I would be actually willing to pay $25 for them. But these days, there are often 2 good songs, and 8 filler ones that are dreadful. So, basically, you are paying $8 a song.

When I was a kid, I would listen to my parents old Beatles records, Led Zepplin, etc... and the albums were solid throughout. They were also cheaper. So now we pay more, for less. The music industry is to blame for this one. They are eliminating the single. They were selling tape and cd singles, but are ending the practice. So, your choice is buy the whole package, or nothing. Any non monopolistic business and they go down fast.

If we had to buy a car with jiggly dice, plush countertops, detailed paint, the stereo of their choice, etc... etc... we would be angry campers. RIAA is turning music into this.

Before, some of the revenue from singles would actually go to the artist. Now, with no single, people who just want the song and not the album are going the mp3 route. RIAA sucks.

[kms61]

Atlas Shrugged. Only this time it's the consumer and, increasingly, the artists, who are doing the shrugging.

[expatguy]

Of course now days it only takes ONE hit to be a superstar and completely set for the rest of your life.

Something like this is not fair and leaves me with absolutely no pity for the record companies and artists.