Lowering recording costs is irrelevant to the price of a CD unless you are making it yourself. Record labels pay for marketing/promotions, paying out advances, fees to all their employees, etc.
It is my understanding that major label artists generally pay for the recording fees out of their advance (and then pay back the advance to the record label with album sales), so however much the recording fees are reduced, it doesn't matter to a record label since a $2 million advance is a $2 million advance no matter how the artist spends it.
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Lowering recording costs is irrelevant to the price of a CD unless you are making it yourself. Record labels pay for marketing/promotions, paying out advances, fees to all their employees, etc.
It is my understanding that major label artists generally pay for the recording fees out of their advance (and then pay back the advance to the record label with album sales), so however much the recording fees are reduced, it doesn't matter to a record label since a $2 million advance is a $2 million advance no matter how the artist spends it.