Relax
Our boy Steve has a lot of influence. He can figure out a way to talk them out of the price hike.
Our boy Steve has a lot of influence. He can figure out a way to talk them out of the price hike.
sethwerkheiser said:I'll say this - for the big popular songs out there - I think $1.25 is kinda fair. For instance, my parents just bought me Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder or whatever. It was marked $19.99 ( ), then reduced to $15.99. I've listend to the CD casually about 5 times and I gotta tell you, I think spending the $1.25 Meglomaniac woulda saved me a bundle!
I would NOT pay $1.25 for any of the other songs on this album (yet), as I really haven't given the CD a chance, but yea... I think $1.25 would kinda be okay for like a month or two. Then bring it back down to .99.
Just my two cents
JtheLemur said:Like others before in this post, I jumped on the Russian bandwagon.
http://www.allofmp3.com
(Online Encoding codes albums in almost any format and bitrate for you, includes ID3 tags and such)
http://club.mp3search.ru
(no tags or online encoding, but a ton more bootleg, underground, and rare albums than AllOfmp3.com)
Every album I looked for, I found on one or both of those sites. Prices around 1 penny per MB. I got a Junkie XL double CD album, 30 songs, for $1. 192kbps AAC files, too! In fact, if I wanted to pay a little more I could've gotten the albums at CD-quality, thanks to AllOfMP3's Online Encoding feature. Using a $20 account with Club, I was able to download 12 albums, all above 192-bit (MP3s)... and I still have $13 left. w00t!
I suggest everyone give them a look. Take your business elsewhere - I sure as hell am not going to pay $1.25 for a single song if it comes to that!
idkew said:www.allofmp3.com
RIAA, you force me to use it.
3-22 said:The really bad thing is it will probably blow up on Apple as many customers will blame Apple thinking they are just raising the prices because of it's popularity.
1macker1 said:The music companies are very smart. When the P2P boom was going on, the RIAA wasn't much involved, esp. when napster first took off. Now the RIAA has struck fear in the hearts of many P2P users, so the music companies are going to take advantage. You can either pay the extra .26 cents, or risk being sued. I tip my hat to the music compaines for being such evil genius.
3-22 said:No, but RIAA will sue you for using it. It's illegal, read the disclaimer. (Unless you live in some unknown russian state) Your probably better off with a regular P2P app. less easy to track you. Your just giving your money to some scammer...
harmless said:They did not even open a store in Europe and are already killing it by charging too much.
Even 0.99 is a price that a lot of people are not willing to pay. Now it will be 25% more? No way.
I guess, I'll make a deal with the russians: http://www.allofmp3.com
Andreas
idkew said:i highly doubt a russian website would give it's user info to a us company. besides, the RIAA sues music SHARERS, not downloaders.
think, then post.
Mantat said:I hope that you know that these services are ILLEGAL? Actually, they are legal in russia because the law there allow a company to not pay any copyright fees as long as they pay for a license from the governement. So of all the music sold on these sites, not a single $ goes back to the artists. So its worst than P2P because artists dont get paid and you get screwed by giving the $ to the russian governement.
3-22 said:No, but RIAA will sue you for using it. It's illegal, read the disclaimer. (Unless you live in some unknown russian state) Your probably better off with a regular P2P app. less easy to track you. Your just giving your money to some scammer...
idkew said:basically, what this proves is that I am willing to purchase music online, but not at the crazy prices the RIAA wants me to pay NOW, not to mention what it will cost if they raise prices.
Mantat said:I hope that you know that these services are ILLEGAL?
Royalties paid out to recording artists have supposedly been at risk lately for a number of reasons, including reduced CD sales. Yesterday, the Office of the New York State Attorney General announced another cause: RIAA member companies not making payments required under terms of their contracts.