Just curious, but with CDs being priced at about $14-$18 these days would you buy more CD's if prices were to decreased to say $10?
If CDs were closer to $10, then I would absolutely buy more. That's why I always search for used CDs first at the store.
Funny you should mention that. Did you noticed that at the iTunes Music store ALL the CD's are $9.99?
Not as long as they are free! Honest to God, I have not purchased a single CD in the last 5 years while amassing over 2,300 songs on my other computer.
yes..unless it's a favorite group of mine i have to have the day it comes out....i wait until i can buy it used on amazon.com for $10 or less.
Even though I download most of my cd's, if a band comes out with a real good one, I'll buy it just to have it (artwork, cover, linnear notes etc). Problem is that doesn't happen very often. When something new comes out, it's usually very expensive at first then after the novelty wears off, the price goes down (VCR's, cell phones, DVD players etc). Weren't CD's about $15 when they first came out? Still waiting for the price to go down.
For now, you need a mac. Windows access will arrive "by the end of the year." You only get the tunes in AAC (ie mp4 protected) format. No cover, no physical CD. 200,000 songs is a good, but not great selection. For new full-length CDs, "cost" (ie: recording, production, promotion, and manufacturing expenses) is at least $5-6/disc until tens of thousands are sold. "List" has steadily risen from $12-$13 to $16-$17 over the last decade. Considering the process has become more efficient in the same time frame (offsetting inflation), there is little reason for this creep.
I don't buy cds anymore except for the "Various Artists" cds that just help get a band's name out. For the type of music I listen to, most of those cds are only $4-5, and they definitely succeed in making me interested in a band. If I really like their music, I'll then buy the cd, more than likely I won't though, BUT I will go to their concert and buy their gear. I think that offsets my lack of CD purchasing...
I read an article somewhere that about $3 a CD is built in to help recover the cost of CD theft for vendors. (Actual shoplifting, not downloading) In the same article, it stated that Americans spend about 15% more on products overall because of theft.
Hey Supermac, any idea where you read this statistic about theft? I would really love to find that article or get the link to it. thanks
For sure i would buy more cds if they were $10, i still buy cds now, but rarely ever usually just burn em from someone else.
Call me crazy, but I like looking at the cover art and lyrics and stuff like that. I've downloaded about 100 songs off the internet (lost them when my hard drive on my old computer fried! ), but almost all of the songs were over ten years old....c'mon, I doubt that the original members of Murray Head will care THAT much that I downloaded "One Night in Bangkok"
Hell yes. I already buy a fair amount of CD's(I buy every CD off of which I have downloaded 1-2 songs), but I would buy way more if prices came down to like $10. To me, getting 3 CD's for $30 instead of 2 CD's for $30 would be huge.
Actually, when I buy CDs, I do usually go through someone like BMG Music where, if one pays attention to the deals offered, one can get CDs at an average price of about $10 or less with shipping. They often have deals where you buy one very overpriced CD and then get two more for the shipping price only. If one is willing to buy in a little bulk, deal with a limited selection, go through the slowish mail, and wait a little for newer releases, one can get new CDs for a lower per unit cost. Of course, by the time BMG gets around to having a new CD, it is often available for less per unit at a used CD store.
