Kitsune
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Post by Kitsune on Sept 3, 2003 23:33:38 GMT -5
news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5071138.html?tag=lhUniversal Music Group on Wednesday said it will slash its wholesale prices and reduce its suggested retail pricing for music CDs to $13, from between $17 and $19.I am VERY happy. 
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Der Germ
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Post by Der Germ on Sept 4, 2003 1:08:39 GMT -5
And still not more then seven CDs in my collection (of about seventy-five or so) cost me more then eight bucks. :-D
No, no, seriously, that's a much better price then nearly TWENTY dollars. I'm happy about that. In fact, I may consider buying more then just local band stuff and cheap compilations.
Maybe.
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Post by DarthToad on Sept 4, 2003 20:19:01 GMT -5
Sorry record industry, I'm not gonna buy until you slash more.
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Post by PoolMan on Sept 5, 2003 11:14:00 GMT -5
Well, what level would they need to reach for you to start buying, Toad?
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Post by jenfrazer on Sept 5, 2003 15:21:06 GMT -5
I stopped buying CDs in 1999. That's about the time I also stopped seeing as many movies in theaters.
The price lowering is a start, but it's not enough. There is NO reason a CD should cost more than a cassette. I'd start buying again if CDs dropped below $10.
As for movies, I can rent a VHS tape for $1. There's no way I'm paying $8 to see it in the theater (unless it's LOTR). I can wait. If those prices dropped to $5, I'd go much more often. I'd even sit through some ads. Heresy, I know.
Jen
(Hasn't traded MP3s since 1999 either. That's not a coincidence.)
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Uber
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Post by Uber on Sept 5, 2003 15:38:53 GMT -5
For me it's not simply a matter of dropping CD prices. The distribution model needs to change. There haven't been many CDs in the last 15 years or so that I feel a need to listen to as an entity. The generation of the concept album is, for the most part, dead. So what do I buy a CD for nowadays? Either it's an artist that I love (see: Weird Al), a cd that I borrowed and now want to own (see: Norah Jones), or a compilation cd (see: Journey's Greatest Hits).
For the most part, people don't want the whole album, just one or two tracks. How many people bought Chumbawumba's CD just to get "Tubthumping" and then hated the rest? Or Hootie & The Blowfish? Or OMC? Or the Spice Girls? Frankly, I stopped doing that. If an artist wants me to buy an album, make a good album in it's entirety, and not just one or two singles surrounded by stuff that wouldn't sell without those singles. Let me purchase any single I want and do what I want with it, and I'm happy. Either that or find some magical way to get John, Paul, George and Ringo back together and making new albums. But for the most part, I just choose to stick with what I already own (most of which is courtesy BMG Music Club).
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Post by PoolMan on Sept 5, 2003 16:47:46 GMT -5
Bingo, Uber. Nicely said.
The one positive I can see coming out of all this is that I honestly believe this will trim the fat out of the music industry. There's no room for tacky one hit pop stars in a market that can finally attain its music by the single. If you aren't capable of writing an entire's album's worth of songs in an era where your musica is available piecemeal, you're pretty much doomed.
YAY!
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Post by DarthToad on Sept 5, 2003 19:43:19 GMT -5
Well, what level would they need to reach for you to start buying, Toad? Oh, probably about $7, but they also should start putting out new music I'll actually listen to. I wish it were still the 90's. |
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Post by dajaymann on Sept 11, 2003 9:41:20 GMT -5
For the most part, people don't want the whole album, just one or two tracks. How many people bought Chumbawumba's CD just to get "Tubthumping" and then hated the rest? Or Hootie & The Blowfish? Or OMC? Or the Spice Girls? OHMYGOD You just read off my wife's entire CD collection!!! Just Kidding...I fell in love with her when I saw her copy of Primus' Tales from the Punchbowl. And the rest was history... But seriously, I'd buy CD's a bit more often at the $13 price. That is, if I didn't work at a radio station part time and get them for free to begin with. -Jay- |
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Post by BDC on Sept 17, 2003 14:21:58 GMT -5
Honestly, there have been maybe a handful of artists that have had CDs I enjoyed the whole way through. Weird Al, Cledus Judd and 3 Doors Down. That's it.
The MPAA actually went a nice route with DVDs and the RIAA hasn't done a thing to try to changeover. And they're paying for it. Of course, they think that it all has to do with file sharing.
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Kitsune
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Post by Kitsune on Sept 17, 2003 21:51:51 GMT -5
The MPAA actually went a nice route with DVDs and the RIAA hasn't done a thing to try to changeover. And they're paying for it. Of course, they think that it all has to do with file sharing. ... Yeah, a nice route. One that doesn't let me buy movies from a country THREE BLOCKS AWAY. One that doesn't let me see imported movies from Asia. Real nice. And wasn't the MPAA against DVD Recorders in the first place? |
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Post by DocD83 on Sept 23, 2003 12:16:23 GMT -5
Can't you do something to a DVD player so the region settings make no difference?
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Uber
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Post by Uber on Sept 23, 2003 14:36:48 GMT -5
There are some DVD players which you can turn DVD players into Region 0 (multi-region) players. Several websites out there such as this one that just about anyone with Google can find. |
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