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Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the what-the-market-will-bear dept.

Reverberant writes "Just as the online music market is starting to gain traction, what to music execs want to do? Why, raise prices, of course! Under consideration is raising the price of online singles up to $1.25 to $2.49, or bundling less desirable tracks with hot singles."

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  1. No sense by Banjonardo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The idea was we only like certain songs, and don't want to pay for the extra crap the artists wrote because they didn't have enough time on the record. If they start bundling songs together, piracy will rise again.

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  2. Amazing new technology, undiscovered for 20 years by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have you heard this new technology that lets you find out about albums before you purchase them? I hear tell that they're called MUSIC REVIEWS.