[rwfromkansas]

A buck per song still equals the inflated price of a CD and unless the selection is actually good (my music is not very popular), I am not going to pay money for that.

Sorry, but 50 cents is the way to go, as you could get the equivalent of one CD for the good deal of five dollars, which is what a CD should cost.

As for your claim that if you go outside the top 40 you can find music for less than a buck a song, you are out of your mind. Almost everything I download is not popular music in the top 40 and not even on the major charts as it is religious music. I go into a store and find Cd prices at 15-17 dollars. I go to Wal-Mart and the prices are around 12-14. I go online and the prices are similar to Wal-Mart. Except for some old CD's and a few new ones every once in awhile as a special sale at one website that likes to have ridiculously low prices for selected CD's occassionally, I have NOT located anything I am interested in for below $11. And the times I find something I want on that site at the sale price is rare.

The thing is, CD prices do not change. You can find a CD from 10 years ago and it still will cost you 12 bucks, (with a few exceptions like the clearance sale that one site does I mentioned above).

I have been to Wal-Mart and seen releases of CD's from 5 years ago and the price has only dropped from the 14 bucks when it was knew to the bottom the store will go with almost any CD no matter how old, the 12 dollar range.

You are the one not facing reality about the cost of CD's.

Almost everything except CD's gets cheaper as they age.

[discostu]

Thanks for proving me exactly right. No matter what the price some people will claim it's too much. You know I picked up a Devo anthology for $24 at BestBuy last year, 50 songs plus really good liner notes. Yeah the RIAA is such a rip.