tom permutt;149905 Wrote: > I'm not calling you anything, but I still don't understand what people > mean by "price gouging" in this context. If music is so cheap to > produce, why don't you go produce some? > > I do. I play it very cheaply to very small audiences. Most people > prefer what's on CDs even at the prices the "thugs" charge. I don't > blame them. > > You can get cheap music, but you want the high priced spread. I don't > understand why you think it's somebody's obligation to supply it to you > cheaply. Take it and pay up, or leave it and support the real starving > musicians. Just don't paint yourself a hero for jumping on the same > bandwagon as everyone else and dodging the fare.
I wholeheartedly agree. Music is not cheap to produce; much of the best music is not commercial (e.g. BBC Radio 3) and may well not be able to pay for itself. Starting a band costs a fortune in promotion, as well as recording costs. How on earth can the $10 CD price not be justified? If you play it ten times, that's a dollar for an hour's entertainment. I have CDs that I have played hundreds of times; I can't think of anything that is better value (DVDs I pay $20 for and play once? No thanks!) I agree that it may increase the record companies' bottom lines if they reduced prices - their unit sales might increase dramatically. However, such a strategy is very risky - once you do it, there's no going back. Blue paints the music industry as suited thugs; I've met a lot of people in music, and none of them were thugs (some *were* suited!). Most of them are great people who love music, and would love to find a solution to the current problem. There may be a few very big players who are doing well, but must of the guys I know are much smaller; they're struggling and get really upset when they see their artists, on whom they have spent a huge amount both financially and emotionally, getting pirated. They can't invest in new music if they don't make profits from their existing ones. Adam -- adamslim SB3 and Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
