The price of CDs has gone up, and if you adjust for inflation, it's more than doubled since CDs were first introduced
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how is this possible? In the 1980s I would buy cds for $15 a piece and I buy them today for about $12-14 depending on sales, etc. I have seen them drop in real costs, not even adjusted for inflation. Some people talk about $17 cds, but I've never seen one offered for sale that wasn't an import.
If all you're buying is a CDR then why not get the same CDR for free? Why spend money on something you can download unless it's a better product (graphics, etc). Your theory makes the store no better than Kazaa and more expensive.
Next!
I talked to the owner of the used cd store 2 blocks from my college when he closed it last year, he told me:
a) he got most of his cool vinyl when people switched to CDs in the 1980s and recently the only used vinyl he got offered was from the 1980s- bad metal and corporate rock. he said he was getting one person bringing in sellable vinyl a week as opposed to 2 or 3 people bringing in records he could sell PER DAY in the 80s/90s. I remember buying trashed out of print 1960s rock records for $2-4 each when I was in school.
b) around 2000 a kid came in and sold 150 or so cds. The kid bragged that he converted all his music to mp3 and now he was going to sell every cd he owned. My buddy offered him almost $700 in store credit but the kid said he wanted the cash because he was never going to buy cds again. The kid got $500 and my friend realized his days were numbered when a kid with a good cd collection didn't want to buy cds any more. That was a wake-up call that I heard about practically every time I visited the store.
c) more and more kids rejected his $3 and $4 he would offer for used cds, opting instead to sell them on ebay for $6. He complained he wasn't getting offered the collections he used to because people were peeling off the good stuff and putting it on ebay.
d) about a week before he decided to close the store another kid came in trying to sell homemade CD-Rs then whined and begged to be allowed to bring his laptop in and convert the guy's $7 used cds to mp3s and was so obnoxious that he had to be physically removed from the store. My friend admitted to himself that if students aren't willing to spend $7 on a cd then they probably just want everything free.
I know he complained that his take-home salary was dropping every year just as his wife got a raise every year. Last I heard, he's selling the remainder of his stock on ebay and owns some kind of snack bar downtown.
People have been spouting a lot of nonsense ideas in this thread, but nary a one includes moneymaking ideas- ideas that will make enough money to cover brick and mortar overhead. in-stores, DSL connections, etc don't bring in money, they drain money.
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The price of CDs has gone up, and if you adjust for inflation, it's more than doubled since CDs were first introduced --------------------- how is this possible? In the 1980s I would buy cds for $15 a piece and I buy them today for about $12-14 depending on sales, etc. I have seen them drop in real costs, not even adjusted for inflation. Some people talk about $17 cds, but I've never seen one offered for sale that wasn't an import.
If all you're buying is a CDR then why not get the same CDR for free? Why spend money on something you can download unless it's a better product (graphics, etc). Your theory makes the store no better than Kazaa and more expensive. Next!
I talked to the owner of the used cd store 2 blocks from my college when he closed it last year, he told me:
a) he got most of his cool vinyl when people switched to CDs in the 1980s and recently the only used vinyl he got offered was from the 1980s- bad metal and corporate rock. he said he was getting one person bringing in sellable vinyl a week as opposed to 2 or 3 people bringing in records he could sell PER DAY in the 80s/90s. I remember buying trashed out of print 1960s rock records for $2-4 each when I was in school.
b) around 2000 a kid came in and sold 150 or so cds. The kid bragged that he converted all his music to mp3 and now he was going to sell every cd he owned. My buddy offered him almost $700 in store credit but the kid said he wanted the cash because he was never going to buy cds again. The kid got $500 and my friend realized his days were numbered when a kid with a good cd collection didn't want to buy cds any more. That was a wake-up call that I heard about practically every time I visited the store.
c) more and more kids rejected his $3 and $4 he would offer for used cds, opting instead to sell them on ebay for $6. He complained he wasn't getting offered the collections he used to because people were peeling off the good stuff and putting it on ebay.
d) about a week before he decided to close the store another kid came in trying to sell homemade CD-Rs then whined and begged to be allowed to bring his laptop in and convert the guy's $7 used cds to mp3s and was so obnoxious that he had to be physically removed from the store. My friend admitted to himself that if students aren't willing to spend $7 on a cd then they probably just want everything free.
I know he complained that his take-home salary was dropping every year just as his wife got a raise every year. Last I heard, he's selling the remainder of his stock on ebay and owns some kind of snack bar downtown.
People have been spouting a lot of nonsense ideas in this thread, but nary a one includes moneymaking ideas- ideas that will make enough money to cover brick and mortar overhead. in-stores, DSL connections, etc don't bring in money, they drain money.