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cd shopping
i think i'm going to have to say i'm 'against' the music industry.
i was shopping at some music store for CDs and they were all in the $17-20 price range.
now of course we all know at this point that it costs less than 10 cents to make one, but the music industry is in a similar situation to the pharmaceutical industry; it takes millions of dollars to promote hundreds of bands and produce singles and albums and to advertise etc. and for all that, only a few of them are going to sell well and they have to more than make up for all their losers on those.
fine. i can completely see how the the new justin timberlake album costs $20-about a $6 markup from the music store, about 5$ in promototion, maybe $2 to write/produce the music, $1 for justin, $2 for the industry, and a couple dollars to make up for losses elsewhere. that's entirely fair, and i can see why they hate people just downloading the music instead. people that would download that kind of album off the internet should rightly be called criminals. and poofs.
however, i am unlikely to buy the new justin timberlake album. i am far more likely to buy an album that has been out for 35 years and the artist died 30 years ago. it is completely unpromoted, the artist is (obviously) getting nothing, etc. it probably got 'digitally remastered' in the mid 90's, how much did that cost?
anyway, these cd's still cost $15-20, and that makes no sense to me. simply unacceptable.
even if you want to claim that the music from the early 70's is still copyrighted (which it obviously shouldn't be) and that that is what is costing so much, go look at a beethoven CD. $15. wtf.
the end.
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