--- Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com> wrote:
quoted 8 lines At 11:57 AM 1/28/01, genomaly@hushmail.com wrote:
> At 11:57 AM 1/28/01, genomaly@hushmail.com wrote:
> >Why, if CD media has become so inexpensive: 25 cents or so a disk, whereas
> >MDs cost about 1 dollar each, haven't CD prices dropped?
>
> Ask Steve Albini or Courtney Love. :) Seriously - there are loads of
> articles and essays regarding this subject all over the place, but the
> bottom line is blatant corporate greed combined with too many hands in the
> music production, distribution and retail business.
Without wishing to labour the point here the reason CDs are overpriced because
the major label record companies are greedy fucking bastards.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm
"Record Companies Settle FTC Charges of Restraining Competition in CD Music
Market. All Five Major Distributors Agree to Abandon Advertising Pricing
Policies"
Apparently CD buyers in the United States have overpaid $480 million for CDs in
the last 3 years.
-i
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