[rs79bm]

How's this: Stop charging $14.99 for a f****ing CD and then maybe people will start buying them. Are you listening RIAA???

[realpatriot71]

Bingo! Something is going to have to give . . . and I don't think it's going to be consumers buying more CD's. I've always been the science type, so the only economics class I ever had was in high school, but one would think that supply and demand economics would necessitate a lower price.

[tippytoes]

I went to the music store the other day and priced CD's. Try $17.99. Egad! The bottom line about low sales is the pitiful excuse for music the companies are pumping out. There are so few good singers left and the lyrics of songs now are absolute crap. My 20 year old son prefers the classic rock, R&B, and the standards sung by Sinatra and Dean Martin. The music industry is a wasteland compared to those artists from our past.

[zarf]

THIS IS THE MAIN REASON: $16.99 per CD!!!!????

[RobbyS]

The stuff is over priced. DVDs have dropped to the level of VHS because that is what the market demands. No artist should get any more for an album than a writer gets for a book

[Dust in the Wind]

HIGH PRICE BUMP!!
As for me and my house, it has nothing to do with downloading or recording.

[medved]

How's this: Stop charging $14.99 for a f****ing CD and then maybe people will start buying them. Are you listening RIAA???

The music industry has some sort of a serious stupidity problem. There's a price for anything which maximizes profits and that price is not the highest possible price you'd ever get for one copy of whatever it is, and that's simple claculus and Econ 101, but there's no evidence the music industry ever heard of anything like that. Real, real hard to feel sorry for em.

[cinFLA]

How's this: Stop charging $14.99 for a f****ing CD and then maybe people will start buying them. Are you listening RIAA???

It always amazes me when I look in the Sunday ads and see movies cheaper than CD's!

[freebilly]

How's this: Stop charging $14.99 for a f****ing CD and then maybe people will start buying them. Are you listening RIAA???

I recently drove a carload of teenagers to Starbuck's. On the way they wanted to listen to a station that was playing music from the 70's, 80's, and early 90's. When I asked them why they wanted to listened to it, the response was "because it's good."

[Lynn]

$14.99??? where are you buying your cd's at....at that price I need to get em by the boxload...I can't find the for under 16 where i'm at

[Protagoras]

How's this: Stop charging $14.99 for a f****ing CD and then maybe people will start buying them.

Are you saying it is OK to steal things if the price is higher than someone is willing to pay?

[Psycho_Bunny]

$14.99? What the hell are you talking about?

I went to 3 stores on Sunday looking for a copy of The Crystal Method's "Name of the Game".

$18.50 was the lowest price I could find, and I only wanted that one song.

I just downloaded a pirated copy, instead of buying it.

[Conservative til I die]

Try $19.99 in some places in NY. However, I see the CD makers are taking note of DVD marketing tactics. They're putting out multiple versions of a CD, releasing limited edition CDs with extra discs, or selling them to start as low as $6.99.