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Apple Offers Back to School Discount on Select iTunes Albums

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Apple has launched a Back to School music sale in iTunes for U.S. customers dropping the price on a several popular albums to $6.99 (via iMore). The sale works alongside the iTunes "Complete My Album" feature, allowing already purchased tracks to count towards the price of the full album.

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Here's the full list of songs on sale:

- Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
- Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
- Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
- The Lumineers - The Lumineers
- Pink - The Truth About Love
- OneRepublic - Native
- Blake Shelton - Based On a True Story...
- Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
- Various Artists - Pitch Perfect (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Apple also has more than 60 other albums available for $7.99, featuring artists like Taylor Swift, Fun., Eminem, and more. The $6.99 sale will last from September 2 to September 5.

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NitinNike

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Haha here In India 90% of albums costs around $2.

Sorry I forgot to mention that's without any discounts or offers.
 
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TsMkLg068426

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And I do not care any of those Pop music albums, any Electronic or Dance music albums discount? I doubt it.
 
mrat93

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.Asa said:
If only music piracy could be less prominent everywhere... we could all have $2 albums.
Stop pirating music!
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If albums were $2 each here, I would never pirate an album again.
 
nagromme

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If an album is only worth $2 to you, I don't see how it's worth the time to even listen to.
 
ArtOfWarfare

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nagromme said:
If an album is only worth $2 to you, I don't see how it's worth the time to even listen to.
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?

I'm confused how you can say that about $2/album but not $12/album, if you're trying to equate money an album is worth with the length of the contents of the album.
 
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gatearray

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.Asa said:
If only music piracy could be less prominent everywhere... we could all have $2 albums.
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Haha, that's a good one! I think what your suggesting could be categorized as "specious reasoning"... :)

For example, what were record companies' excuse for charging $15 for a CD back in the 80s/90s before the advent of digital piracy? While I agree with you that pirating is wrong, it could entirely stop tomorrow and the price of music would stay the same, or worse, actually increase.
 
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Molecule

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How does this actually help anybody going back to school? I thought these kinds of sales were for useful things... :confused:
 
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Boris-VTR

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gatearray said:
Haha, that's a good one! I think what your suggesting could be categorized as "specious reasoning"... :)

For example, what were record companies' excuse for charging $15 for a CD back in the 80s/90s before the advent of digital piracy? While I agree with you that pirating is wrong, it could entirely stop tomorrow and the price of music would stay the same, or worse, actually increase.
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True true. No way would those greedy suits at music corp lower price of albums.
 
Carlanga

Carlanga

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NitinNike said:
Haha here In India 90% of albums costs around $2.

Sorry I forgot to mention that's without any discounts or offers.
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original/official non-indian music? Like for example the ones in the OP?

mrat93 said:
I wonder if music piracy is a lot less prominent there.
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I believe the $2 that the member says are pirated music.

.Asa said:
If only music piracy could be less prominent everywhere... we could all have $2 albums.
Stop pirating music!
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lol, you don't understand music labels.

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Molecule said:
How does this actually help anybody going back to school? I thought these kinds of sales were for useful things... :confused:
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bus rides and such...

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Gasu E. said:
Perhaps you are not aware of the differences in salaries between India and the US.
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nah that has nothing to do w/ it prob. pirated music... I go to central america a lot and the price of CDs are higher than the US and people earn $2.25 a hour, but you also have people w/ pirated dvd of cam recordings of movies in the street selling for $2-3. In lat america the price of videogames is crazyyy high also.
 
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NitinNike

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Gasu E. said:
Perhaps you are not aware of the differences in salaries between India and the US.
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My dad currently earns $200000 per annum. That's definitely lot higher than the average income of Americans.
Many people over here are offered with good salaries. No doubt about it.
We are beaten just because of population and that's due to lack of education. So ratio is unacceptable.
Here people save money a lot and invest an all that and I haven't heard of people over there saving and investing. So people even with low salaries can live happily and I have seen it.
India has developed a lot in these years.
 
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Nabby

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Equal or less on Amazon

With the exception of 2 or 3, all of these albums are currently $5.99 on Amazon. The rest are $6.99.
 
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