I've read a lot of people whining about the quality of music these days and implying somehow this becomes the excuse for the downloading rather than the purchasing of music. This argument falls apart if there is still a demand for this poor quality music. The only reasons we download music for free en masse are 1) we can, and can very easily and 2) guided completely by selfish reasons, the price is absolutely right.
As an aside, I don't see why the itunes business model can't allow for the purchase of an album in its entirety. For instance, if Metallica doesn't want their fans to purchase only select songs from their album, it seems to me they could put the full album for sale at a certain price, and say all or nothing. But hey, i'm just a caveman.
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I've read a lot of people whining about the quality of music these days and implying somehow this becomes the excuse for the downloading rather than the purchasing of music. This argument falls apart if there is still a demand for this poor quality music. The only reasons we download music for free en masse are 1) we can, and can very easily and 2) guided completely by selfish reasons, the price is absolutely right.
As an aside, I don't see why the itunes business model can't allow for the purchase of an album in its entirety. For instance, if Metallica doesn't want their fans to purchase only select songs from their album, it seems to me they could put the full album for sale at a certain price, and say all or nothing. But hey, i'm just a caveman.