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Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA
Hodejo1 writes "Steve Jobs vowed weeks ago that when iTunes shifted to a tiered price structure in April, older tracks priced at $0.69 would outnumber the contemporary hits that are rising to $1.29. Today, several weeks later, iTunes made the transition. While the $1.29 tracks are immediately visible, locating cheaper tracks is proving to be an exercise in futility. With the exception of 48 songs that Apple has placed on the iTunes main page, $0.69 downloads are a scarce commodity. MP3 Newswire tried to methodically drill down to unearth more of them only to find: 1) A download like Heart's 34-year-old song Barracuda went up to $1.29, not down. 2) Obscure '90s Brit pop and '50s rockabilly artists — those most likely to benefit from a price drop — remained at $0.99. 3) Collected tracks from a cross-section of 1920s, '30s, and '40s artists all remained at $0.99. Finally, MP3 Newswire called up tracks in the public domain from an artist named Ada Jones who first recorded in 1893 on Edison cylinder technology. The price on all of the century-old, public-domain tracks remained at $0.99. (The same tracks are available for free on archive.org.) The scarcity of lower-priced tracks may reflect the fact that the labels themselves decide which price tier they want to pursue for a given artist; and they are mostly ignoring the lower tier. Meanwhile, Amazon's UK site has decided to counter-promote their service by dropping prices on select tracks to 29 pence ($0.42)."
It looks like that really is the answer.
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They couldn't even manage to put the logo right side up either.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
"A download like Heart's 34-year-old song Barracuda...."
I bought this song when it was released. Thanks for making me feel old.
That post reads like a veritable who's who of 90's lonely gay college student music. The fact you spent money on it makes it worse. What, no Counting Crows?
iTunes is a bloated, poorly designed turd for you to organize your collection
Corrected that for you, Captain Obvious.
Next you're going to shout at the top of your lungs how fantastic that POS Amarok software is and it will trump iTunes.
What, that 1 Euro is the same as 1 Dollar?
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
NOBODY is going to spend $6,000 on their music collection.
Some idiots spend that much on a cable!
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alles Lüge ;) Here in Germany I can download David Hasselhoff songs just fine, no need to worry!
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Does she get to tell you how to live your life now too?
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