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HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices

Posted by kdawson on from the signs-of-sanity dept.

umStefa notes a CBC story reporting that the largest music retailer in Canada, HMV, has slashed prices on CDs and is attributing the move to demand by customers for lower prices. The back catalog of popular artists will see price cuts of up to 33%; the cuts average 20% across the board. The Canadian version of the RIAA is spinning the news as being a direct result of music piracy.

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  1. Crazy Canada by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    is attributing the move to demand by customers for lower prices

    Holy shit. In Canada, all consumers have to do is demand lower prices and they get them??

    1. Re:Crazy Canada by PlatyPaul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, it just depends on how loudly you demand it. And if you have your Demanding Stick with you when you do.

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    2. Re:Crazy Canada by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

      Holy shit. In Canada, all consumers have to do is demand lower prices and they get them?? As long as you say "sorry" and also ask in French, it's all good.
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  2. Re:Cheaper music? by UnHolier+than+ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a consumer, I DEMAND that the price for replicas of 16th centuries galleon, complete with functioning cannons and a well-trained and bloodthirsty crew, be lowered! Otherwise I will, you know....pirate..... *duck and covers*

  3. Yay for piracy! by Criffer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Canadian version of the RIAA is spinning the news as being a direct result of music piracy*.

    Yay for piracy!

    Now, we just need to keep downloading torrents and DVDs will get cheaper, too!

    *Nothing to do with the lack of demand for crap music, obviously.
  4. Re:What unbridled optimism, by whitehatlurker · · Score: 4, Funny

    and its spelled right

    But "it's" isn't.

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  5. Re:Right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The White Album is still forty-five freakin' dollars!

    What's your problem? You don't want John Lennon to have to get a day job, do you? He'll have to stop writing songs!

  6. Re:Right... by hawk · · Score: 2, Funny

    not nearly as much as we'd pay to stop *singing*! (or caterwauling, or whatever that is . . .)

    hawk