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Originally Posted by Gareth*
I disagree fully,
99 cents is super cheap for one cutt considering the cost of actually recording and 18 bucks isn't a total rip off for a CD. Making a semi-pro album can easily cost $10,000 to record. (actualy pressing the CD 1000 times will cost about $1400) Making a a full blown CD can easily cost $100,000. If I've got a CD that sells for about $10 after shipping and promoting I can get $6. That means that after selling 1000 CD's I'd still be down about $4,000. If it goes for $18 then I'd make about $4,000 or $4 per CD. This is all considering I don't realy promote the album and I'm not using a record lable. That seems pretty fair considering how hard it is to sell 1000 CD's to people who buy "5 CD's a year". If you want people to have the chance to make great album's you've got to shell out a little cash.  |
i hear ya, but still: let's face it; retail cd prices, at least from the major labels, are pretty set standard prices (can anybody say "price fixing"?) i thought that was illegal? so like, why do they all have basically the same prices? because the prices are fixed, not only fixed, but also, the industry promised, when cds first surfaced, that the 12.99-14.99 prices were temporarily high due to the new technology, and after a few years, the price of cds would come down (not), i used to work for a record chain, all the biggies made this promise, an empty promise...
and a lot of the reason for the exhorbitant prices for cds, let's face it, is to support the FLUFF of the industry: outrageous marketing, over the top production and recording facilities, limos limos and more limos and lots of lavish parties, so many record executives doing so little to actually promote their artists, on and on and on... the out of control over spending of the industry at large, of course ya gota charge that much for the final product... they have no choice IMHO