"The music industry has done nothing to make their online offerings attractive yet (it needs to have some compelling reason to do it, be it extras or just plain cheaper than buying a CD)."
I have to agree, at least on the This Is Our Price For A Compact Disc vs. free issue. It is crazy that you can go buy a CD drive, or even a DVD drive for your machine for less than the cost of the actual CD or DVD. As for myself, if I download something, or someone gives me a CD with tons of mp3s on it, it all comes down to this: if I like it, I will go buy the CD (you don't usually get all the liner notes and lyrics with the mp3) -- if I don't like it, I won't buy the CD. They just plain cost too much to waste hard earned cash on them for one or two good tracks. I know folks have said all this before, but it really is true. How many people that have 5000 mp3s on their HDD actually listen to them all the time? Or do they listen to the ones that they also own the CD for, which they play at work or in their car?
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"The music industry has done nothing to make their online offerings attractive yet (it needs to have some compelling reason to do it, be it extras or just plain cheaper than buying a CD)."
I have to agree, at least on the This Is Our Price For A Compact Disc vs. free issue. It is crazy that you can go buy a CD drive, or even a DVD drive for your machine for less than the cost of the actual CD or DVD. As for myself, if I download something, or someone gives me a CD with tons of mp3s on it, it all comes down to this: if I like it, I will go buy the CD (you don't usually get all the liner notes and lyrics with the mp3) -- if I don't like it, I won't buy the CD. They just plain cost too much to waste hard earned cash on them for one or two good tracks. I know folks have said all this before, but it really is true. How many people that have 5000 mp3s on their HDD actually listen to them all the time? Or do they listen to the ones that they also own the CD for, which they play at work or in their car?