Does the GREED of the music industry never end???

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/technology/27apple.html?pagewanted=1
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I buy $.99/song titles from iTunes because I can get a whole album alot cheaper than I can at the store. I don't really care about the inserts. If all this CRAP!!!!!!! forces iTunes to start selling song at $1.43, or whatever, then the cost of the albums will be about the same as a brick n' mortar and I won't use iTunes anymore. I realize that the old stuff would be sold for a lot less than $.99, but I'm old, so I already have all the oldies I want. This just pisses me off. Sorry.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi werewolf

I don't even bother buying the stuff anymore. If its on the radio, I listen or I pop what I already have into the cassette or cd player.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like Napster to go, at $15 a month. When I was using iTunes, I was spending about $23 a month on music. I've cut that considerably, and am able to keep everything synched on the MP3 player of my choice. I find that my musical choices are for the most part quite transient, and those selections that hold my prolonged interest are already in my permanent collection (the "classics", so to speak). So a subscription service makes a lot of sense for me. The only problem that I forsee with the service is the increased number of "purchase only" tracks and albums--I certainly don't want to pay every month for the opportunity to purchase music.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If they push the price up, it's less convenient, less people buy, more people steal. The only reason people pay for those is because that .99 looks so cheap, like a real deal. They may not be greedy, music is one of those things that are hard to put a price on, but they are definetly "stupid" on some degree. They don't have a lot of bargaining power or room to make demands anymore. The more they push their luck the more people find other means. What they should be doing is thanking apple and the others for the money they brought in, as opposed to what would have been some of those customers would have bought the album in stores, and most would just use p2p or likewise.

Either some means of equal ground is going to have to be established, or one side is going to break. My vote would be on the music industry cracking.

Besides things like that, some cd's sell for 8 bucks give or take at places like circuit city and target. That is LESS than 99 cents a song, so it's never perfect. But it's hard to say what is right and wrong or good and bad. Sure stealing music is wrong, but it's so common place people don't even think about it really. However, looking back at how economy works, the customers usually hold more power than the sellers. (If only gas prices worked like this)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Only if greed is what it takes to make a living. Everyone needs to get paid. And artists need protection as much as consumers.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think people have been spoiled by getting free music for so long, that when the concept of paying for it again or paying more for it is brought up. They feel like they're being mistreated.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I pay XmRadio $12.95 a month and get 150 channels of anything I want to listen to. Once you try it you'll never listen to AM/FM again. I hear stuff I will never hear on AM/FM and all the oldie type music you can handle.

And I don't understand why people think they should get their music for free. The people that write the songs and play the music need to get paid in order to continue doing that. You don't tell a home builder that that you should get it for free...do you? It would be great if I could walk into the grocery store walk out with food without having to pay for it. But those greedy farmers always want to get paid.