I stopped buying CDs when they started selling for $17 or $18 bucks a pop. I'd like two or 3 songs, and I was out nearly $20. Doesn't it cost the record label something like 20 cents to produce the disc itself, maybe another $1 in packaging? Sell the darn CD for 10 bucks, and I muight buy it. Why not give the artist, say, $2 in royalties, and the label makes $6.80 in profit (before any other promotion they pay for). That seems fair.
If they want us to buy the CDs, they need to price them fairly.
If the daughter committed the crime, why is the industry going after the mother?
Are the parents of the Columbine killers being jailed for the murders committed by their sons?
Better yet -- If they want us to buy the CDs, put some decent material on them! Not all of us like Rap, Hip-Hop, Metal, Madonna or the other garbage. What ever happened to music? You know, that artistic combination of melody, harmony and lyrics that actually comprised something meaningful.
Well, the record company has to recoop the money it lost in the class action suit (that I joined) by falsely inflating CD prices for the past 10 years. Since their introduction, labels are still charging the same price- if not more.
Yeah, but as long as parents allow their kids to buy loads of these things at $20 a pop, the industry knows it can get the price it asks.
p.s. Good login name.
The "fair" price is whatever they want to charge--although they behave that way, the record companies and distributors do not have a monopoly, and buying music is totally discretionary. Obviously there are enough people willing to pay $18 for a CD so they charge that much. They could really save themselves a lot of trouble if they could just get one person to pay $1M per CD!