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Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive
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."
It's holding steady at $0.00 per song, last I checked. ;-)
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Yes, I believe this is called an "album" these days.
... just like CDs did.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Waitress:
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
70% of the first 5 posts in a given story get modded to +4 or better if thy contain more than three sentences related to the topic on hand. 93% of all karma whores know that.
1. Jump from the airplane without opening a parachute. When falling, sue the ground for being hard and the air for being soft, but refuse to do the sensible thing everyone is suggesting.
2. When just seconds from hitting the rocks, finally open a parachute in desperation
3. As soon as they slow the fall to survivable speed, start thinking about folding the parachute again and toughing it out.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!
RIAA Exec #2: Yes. Brilliant!!
RIAA Exec #1: Well, I've devised a new way to get even more money from them.
RIAA Exec #2: More you say? But how?
RIAA Exec #1: We'll charge them more and take it all anyway!
RIAA Exec #2: Brilliant!!
RIAA Exec #1: And you know how we can't seem to sell all this other crap?
(Points to rotting pile of Shakira singles)
RIAA Exec #1: Well I thought of a way to get rid of that too.
(Staples a worthless single to a Top-40 single and doubles the price)
RIAA Exec #2: Brilliant!!
(Both strip off their clothes and have sex with pigs on a huge pile of cash.)
--FIN--
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
How do you know you like the album? You only get to hear the best singles on the radio or MTV-a-like stations. Care to elucidate on where you're hearing the rest?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Whats up with "less desirable tracks" in the first place? Why release them if you know people won't like them?
This is like raising the price of a pizza and then adding a side order of maggots.
Someday a Slashdot ID of 177180 will mean something.
RIAA should catch on that the on-demand world is the way of the future. Software providers realize this, the internet is on-demand, we have movies-on demand over our cable and internet. If they would catch on with the rest of reality perhaps illegal downloads would diminish and they might actually start showing a profit on their product. As consumers, we hold the ultimate power. However, that power is distributed amongst millions of people. If somehow a movement could be coordinated to flat out stop buying music then perhaps our voices would be heard! The music industry is lucky that the 'free music business model (p2p)' hasn't made it's way back into the picture. It seems that if the RIAA have their way there will be two options: Pay an arm and a leg for music and get more stuff you don't want, or download it illegally and gamble with the consequences. Personally, I either listen to the radio or Rhapsody's streaming audio. The world on-demand is the way of the future.
Well, isn't it?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
...of buying/downloading tracks online to get exactly what you wanted; to purchase ONLY the songs I wanted to listen to and not have to waste my money on "filler" that I don't want? Now we won't even be able do that. We're starting to do exactly what they want us to do, pay for the music we download, and now they want to ruin that too?!
;)
Who the hell is running these music companys? I'm beginning to think it's just a room full of monkeys.
Random brainwashed RIAA marketing employee: (Opens door to boardroom filled with monkeys wearing sport jackets jumping about) Look at these figures! People are finally starting to purchase music they download online instead of stealing it!
Some monkey: oooooo-AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!
Random marketing employee: What? Fix prices on internet music too? Don't you think it's a little early for that?
Same monkey: AAAAAH-AAAHH-OOOO-AAAAAH-EEEEEE!!!
RIAA Employee: And you also think we should start making them download crap with every song just like with CDs?
Some other monkey: Pulls finger from butt and sniffs it.
Marketing Employee: BRILLIANT!
It was hilarious in my head, use your imagination
Silly wabbit. Those peskie anti-trust laws were secretly repealed back in 1980 when the last bit of civilization in the United States was destroyed.