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Originally Posted by rwspin";p="
CD prices too high? Do you have any idea how much it costs to produce a record, shoot several videos for it, and then advertise and promote it worldwide? Hey, I think $23 is alot to pay for a new book (which costs much less than a CD to actually produce), but are people robbing bookstores left and right to fight the publishers? No, because obviously it's not as easy to get away with that... it's the ease of the crime that makes the difference here, so that argumet doesn't fly.
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Now I know since the going rate of a legal single-track download is about a buck (.89 - .99), the "crime" we're talking about is not grand theft auto - more like stealing a pack of gum from the drugstore. But it's gotten so out of control that it's *f*'d up the whole industry, and the bottom line is artists need to get paid for their work, just like anybody else, or they can't survive.
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It is expensive to make a CD, but not as expensive as they charge for CDs. Right now, for a brand spaking new MTV top 20 CD (which I wouldn't buy, but for the sake of the argument) would cost me 23€, here in Helsinki. Say I wait a few weeks/months, 18-20€. Say, I go to Germany (instantaneously), then around 17-19€. Say, I go to the USA (instantaneously), roughly 17-19$!
End situation:
Original: 28$
End: 17-19$
None of them are selling for at a loss, as the CD is still new. Sure there are middle men, and the price is getting hiked up constantly, but somewhere along the line I'm getting screwed.
Also the online sales are proving that there is a significant price hike on the way. As you say, a song goes for 1$, I'll buy the whole album (roughly 11-13 tracks). That would cost 11-13$, now that is quite a difference to the 28$ I payed for the same songs, a decorated CD, a CD case, with nice photos and credits. They need to market the songs online as well, so marketing can't make such a huge difference. Online, stores are replaced by webspace and their operation. Granted that's not a equal transition, but once again somewhere there is a considerable price increase.
I would pay for music online, but like dmann, my taste in music is better suited for at the cheap CD section. (You can't find it online)