[friendly]

The pigopolists continue to bite the hands that feed them. If it wasn't for the fact that they also hold the production and distribution monopolies they'd be dead already.

The anti-American, degenerate "artists" who suddenly become mega-capitalists are getting their just rewards. The music industry is on a BIG decline.

I especially love the little plastic CDs that cost 25 cents to make that sell for $17.00. Serves the greedy vermin right. If they think all of this is going to work, the RIAA is lost in space.

[visualops]

The fact is; for every malleable, marketable, preened "artist" the industry foists upon us, there are literally hundreds of talented, worthwhile musicians and performers who are ignored by the industry precisely because they are not malleable, aren't pretty, or don't take kindly to someone else's preening. The industry's concerns over the internet have little to do with copyrights and lost profits and everything to do with control. Heaven forbid we should seek out and make our own discoveries, and buy direct from the artist or small independent label.

[SamAdams76]

I especially love the little plastic CDs that cost 25 cents to make that sell for $17.00. Serves the greedy vermin right. If they think all of this is going to work, the RIAA is lost in space.

It's even lower than that. I just bought a stack of 100 blank CDs at Wal-mart for $18. That's 18 cents per CD. And I'm sure they are available for much cheaper wholesale.

I'm an avid music collector and there are hundreds of CDs out there I would love to own. Especially older "catalog" albums. But I just can't justify paying the enormous markup. If the recording industry ever went to a sub-$5 price-point, I'd be buying several CDs a week for probably the rest of my life.

[battousai]

"I especially love the little plastic CDs that cost 25 cents to make that sell for $17.00. Serves the greedy vermin right."

its not even that high, more like 2.5c if even that, I can buy blank CD-Rs for 25c each :)