Right and obviously that's part of the plan. If music companies tell Apple they need to drive individual song prices up, then the value of buying the whole album increases. In the long run, they are getting more of what they wanted from the get go. In stores, what were we forced to do? Buy the whole CD. Whether certain songs were well put together or not, if we wanted our 4 favorite songs that we heard on the radio, we had to take the bad as well.
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Right and obviously that's part of the plan. If music companies tell Apple they need to drive individual song prices up, then the value of buying the whole album increases. In the long run, they are getting more of what they wanted from the get go. In stores, what were we forced to do? Buy the whole CD. Whether certain songs were well put together or not, if we wanted our 4 favorite songs that we heard on the radio, we had to take the bad as well.
This was on the front page of this thread. It appears the authors does not know much about "supply and demand" iTunes has an UNLIMITED supply of tracks. Downloading one does not reduce the supply of tracks. THere is not limit top the available supply at all. The price here has absolutely nothing to do with "supply and demand".
Every song I've even considered buying this morning has been $1.29. Even OLD songs like Piano Man are $1.29.
Piano Man at $1.29, what a joke. Screw the record companies. I bought all of my musci off of iTunes over the last 2-3 years. This will make me consider looking for torrents now.
I used to use iTunes every day, but thanks to the record lables I'll be using it less often. Great move.
My thoughts exactly.
Let the dust settle a bit.
I remember reading that for every $1.29 song, iTunes will carry ten .69 songs.
Let the dust settle a bit.
I remember reading that for every $1.29 song, iTunes will carry ten .69 songs.
Well i just checked my cart and everything i was holding off on buying is at £0.79 still. I ddi however notice that since the 'store is 100% plus' some items are no longer available.
I guess that rather than upgrade those songs too they just removed them.
I guess that rather than upgrade those songs too they just removed them.
Sucks.
I have been searching for like 10 minutes and have still not found a song at $0.69 in the store. A ton of them are $1.29 though!! (mostly just the ones i want.) I have been using iTunes for the last year to "legally" aquire my music, but this might mean back to torrents. Or Amazon
Nice move apple.
I have been searching for like 10 minutes and have still not found a song at $0.69 in the store. A ton of them are $1.29 though!! (mostly just the ones i want.) I have been using iTunes for the last year to "legally" aquire my music, but this might mean back to torrents. Or Amazon
Nice move apple.
Back "in the day" when I listened to a lot of dance music, I would buy the singles from HMV.
true and didnt Steve get into a fight on Christmas Eve arguing with the music labels for this? I cant imagine him saying...
guys..you can charge 1.29 for all songs....sure 30% increase for everything...sounds great to me...who needs music anyways....
instead it probably was:
you can charge $1.29 for only the top songs everything else will be $0.69 OR ELSE.
3 of those 5 words have barely been used regarding the music industry in 10 years.
Kudos!
I guess whether you're impacted here depends on how you were purchasing songs before. In my case, once iTunes allowed purchasing "Plus" songs at $1.29, that's what I did (well, actually, I checked Amazon first to see if it was significantly cheaper there -- $.99 and higher, I usually bought from iTunes). Its been nice the last few months to be able to purchase "Plus" songs for the same $.99 price as regular songs, but if I was willing to pay it before, I'm willing to do so now.
In all honesty, however, Amazon has been getting more of my money recently because of their Daily MP3 Deal and the Friday weekend deals -- picked up a couple of full-albums for $3-6 bucks (depending on the album).
In all honesty, however, Amazon has been getting more of my money recently because of their Daily MP3 Deal and the Friday weekend deals -- picked up a couple of full-albums for $3-6 bucks (depending on the album).
Greedy, Greedy B******s!!!
how you seen how they are doing it!! the price of tracks varies in a particular album and the most popular songs in that album are the most expensive!! That is cruel and greedy!!
If Grandaddy is more expensive when they put it back up i am going to be really P***** off!!!!!!
how you seen how they are doing it!! the price of tracks varies in a particular album and the most popular songs in that album are the most expensive!! That is cruel and greedy!!
If Grandaddy is more expensive when they put it back up i am going to be really P***** off!!!!!!
I have 290 songs purchased from iTunes in my library. I checked a lot of them - all still $0.99. There were some $0.69 songs from the same artists but probably not ones I would buy. I couldn't find any songs for $1.29 except the Springsteen song from "The Wrestler" movie.
Or else what? lol
The record companies have wanted to raise the price of songs on iTunes for years. The only reason Apple caved was the record companies finally got Apple over a barrel (no pun intended). The record companies refused to license their songs to Apple for download over the air (so long iPhone and iPod touch) unless Apple agreed to variable pricing on the iTunes store. And for Apple's future plans, that's a huge issue.
And, by the way, the .69 price is pure BS and the record companies know it. If they couldn't sell a crappy song for .99, selling it at .69 isn't going to make it sound any better. I haven't found a single song in my library selling today for .69. Have you?
They put a few links to the $0.69 songs in the middle of the front page of the store, "Great Songs at a Great Price: R&B" and "Great Songs at a Great Price: Rock"
It's nothing I would want (Monkey by George Michael, really?) or don't already have, but there are at least 40+ songs that are .69 cents.
Almost all the "radio singles" on new and even some older artists are jacked up to $1.29.
It's nothing I would want (Monkey by George Michael, really?) or don't already have, but there are at least 40+ songs that are .69 cents.
Almost all the "radio singles" on new and even some older artists are jacked up to $1.29.
I haven't seen it for myself. i mostly buy cds myself and songs recommended by the itunes staff. I have to say Itunes changed my life as it brought me into contact with music i normally would never have listened too. I know it is expensive (but checking with amazon it wasoften the same price...) but i consider it my little eduation.
My guess is that prices will drop over time.Esp if they start loosing customers. Myself i probably will stay, just out of laziness but will check my amazon mp3 list a bit more....
My guess is that prices will drop over time.Esp if they start loosing customers. Myself i probably will stay, just out of laziness but will check my amazon mp3 list a bit more....
Uh huh, and tell me if you were a record company exec that you'd still see things that way. People are greedy get used to it. Off the backs of others? Exactly. Business makes money off consumers. (off their backs, wallets, or whatever)
Not all those songs are 1.29, most are still .99 with some .69 and 1.29, at least for the songs I'm viewing.
Correction on main article
Just for the record, the main article here is wrong.
This is not true.
Last night all the tracks that were not yet DRM free (and there were a lot), were removed from the store.
There are actually a lot of tracks (my guess is about 10% of the store) that the studios did not allow to be converted to DRM free and were removed instead. Check out John Lennon's page for instance. Used to be three pages of albums, now it's a single page.
Also, there are no $.69 tracks yet. Even on extremely ancient stuff like swing music recorded in the 40's. Certainly at least some obscure 70's bands should be $.69 tracks, but they are not. Nothing is.
The whole thing is a scam. iTunes is now DRM free, but the selection is even poorer than it already was and the prices are higher than any other online store.
Just for the record, the main article here is wrong.
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This is not true.
Last night all the tracks that were not yet DRM free (and there were a lot), were removed from the store.
There are actually a lot of tracks (my guess is about 10% of the store) that the studios did not allow to be converted to DRM free and were removed instead. Check out John Lennon's page for instance. Used to be three pages of albums, now it's a single page.
Also, there are no $.69 tracks yet. Even on extremely ancient stuff like swing music recorded in the 40's. Certainly at least some obscure 70's bands should be $.69 tracks, but they are not. Nothing is.
The whole thing is a scam. iTunes is now DRM free, but the selection is even poorer than it already was and the prices are higher than any other online store.
I have found plenty, keep looking, most songs are still .99 with some 1.29 and .99.
I agree. I must admit, when I read that the first time and repeated it in my head, it gave me a little chuckle. That's a really piss-poor excuse. They should've just said, hey guys like everything else in this economy, the prices are going up and there is nothing you can do about it.
Normally that would be a valid, if cheap, excuse. But isn't there effectively no inflation at the moment?