quoted 2 lines small idm labels aren't run by shrewd businessmen tired of>small idm labels aren't run by shrewd businessmen tired of
>making their fortune on wall st.,
But, correct me if I'm wrong:
The price of CD's (of whatever genre) is an inflated skam to begin with: those who recall the moment during the 80's when CD's came along will also recall that LP's cost $7 or so. CD's, so exciting, so cutting-edge, came along costing $25. Within a year, the standard price drifted down to about $15, where it's stayed ever since, and vinyl was eliminated from the mass market. Of course the price of manufacturing a CD has plummeted since then, but this savings was not passed along to the consumer.
then we come to IDM...no, you're not going to find it on sale at Tower for $9.99, but the list price for CDs doesn't seem extraordinary. unfortunately, a lot of stuff is only available as ridiculously overpriced vinyl. $10 for a 12" single continually strikes me as way over the top. Especially when you consider that the production cost on a lot of this stuff must be pretty low: no session musicians, and most stuff gets recorded and sometimes even mastered in people's home studios.
most problematic is that one needs a nice changing pile of IDM to keep things fresh, and that pile is going to cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars...
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