Music only Overpriced

rebuy
rebuy Posts: 695
edited June 2011 in Music & Movies
The music industry is suffering from a price war.

The average joe can go to wal mart and buy a DVD for 5 bucks.

So then when looking at music CD they are asked to pay 10 to 20 dollars.

No wonder people are buying songs online for 99 cents.

Movies have great soundtracks that you all enjoy and you get pictures flying through the air as an added bonus. Why can't the music side compete with the movie end for cost?
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited June 2011
    I don't want to pay $20 for a whole disc full of lousy tracks and a couple of good tracks on the CD.

    That's why most people buy tracks rather than a whole CD.
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited June 2011
    Not that this really matters to the pricing, but when I think about how often I might listen to a CD I like and have shelled out for (or the tracks from it) versus how often I watch even some of my favorite movies, the CD even at $15 is a way better value than a DVD or BluRay. Of course the nice thing about folks ripping their stuff or buying MP3's is that you can get used CDs pretty cheap now. It's a good way to avoid getting gouged while the industry tries to come up with better ways of sucking money out of us.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited June 2011
    Walmart also sells CD's for 5 bucks right next to that big ol box of 5 dollar DVD's sits a big ol box of 5 dollar CD's and believe you me I have added qutie a few new 5 dollar Cd's to the collection, you can buy music on the cheap you just got to know where to look, and as for DVD or Blu Ray value you must have to want to watch that movie multiple times to get your moneys worth that is where Net flix comes in. The day new CD's are released Best Buy always sells them for $9.99 the first couple of days before they bump them up to 14.99, so check your relese dates. I can buy songs on line but you dont get the cover and liner notes which I feel is a part of collecting CD's.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2011
    When you buy a single track for .99, you essentially are paying $15-20 for the CD though...considering that an average album has between 15-20 tracks on it. Sure, you might only be buying the one single track, but then you're missing out on the other 14-19 tracks on that album, which in all likelihood are probably just as good if not better than the single that you purchased. You miss out on the album experience by purchasing single tracks. One thing that really irks me about the new digital age, is that the concept of an "album" has really ceased to mean anything to most people.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited June 2011
    Good point Curt.

    Whatever happened to 'concept' albums and albums that had MORE good tracks than 'bad'? I still buy most of my music as Redbook CDs. Call me old fashioned but since I have this new Jolida Music Van sitting in my office with 4 tubes in it, I think I'll continue playing my CDs on it!

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,457
    edited June 2011
    I can get thousands of tracks for free.


    All you have to do is answer the craigslist ads for free vinyl!:smile:

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,654
    edited June 2011
    comfortablycurt wrote: »
    When you buy a single track for .99, you essentially are paying $15-20 for the CD though...considering that an average album has between 15-20 tracks on it. Sure, you might only be buying the one single track, but then you're missing out on the other 14-19 tracks on that album, which in all likelihood are probably just as good if not better than the single that you purchased. You miss out on the album experience by purchasing single tracks. One thing that really irks me about the new digital age, is that the concept of an "album" has really ceased to mean anything to most people.

    yep not to mention when your Mp3 player shoots craps you still have the physical media to reload on the new player.

    Careful buying any music at Wal-Mart most are the sanitized clean versions not excatly the version that the artist wanted to put out.....just saying
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited June 2011
    I strongly disagree. However, if were lucky we can listen to 30sec. of each song, which is more than enough to tell you that out of those 15-20 tracks only one or two sound good, and the rest of the songs are simply variations of those two songs! I'm not paying 20 dollars for different variations of those two songs!

    There are very few acts that are still able to put out an entire album that is worth buying.
    comfortablycurt wrote: »
    When you buy a single track for .99, you essentially are paying $15-20 for the CD though...considering that an average album has between 15-20 tracks on it. Sure, you might only be buying the one single track, but then you're missing out on the other 14-19 tracks on that album, which in all likelihood are probably just as good if not better than the single that you purchased. You miss out on the album experience by purchasing single tracks. One thing that really irks me about the new digital age, is that the concept of an "album" has really ceased to mean anything to most people.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,833
    edited June 2011
    Back in the day, the argument was 45's vs LP's. :wink:

    Some albums have a definite theme, and deserve being heard whole; others have 1 good tune surrounded with filler. Those deserve to be picked apart.
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  • Monster Jam
    Monster Jam Posts: 919
    edited June 2011
    I bought a Prince triple CD at Target for 5 bucks! (Lotus/MPSound I think its called) last year.

    And, well, I got what I paid for. It wasn't very good.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,729
    edited June 2011
    rebuy wrote: »
    The music industry is suffering from a price war.

    The average joe can go to wal mart and buy a DVD for 5 bucks.

    So then when looking at music CD they are asked to pay 10 to 20 dollars.

    No wonder people are buying songs online for 99 cents.

    Movies have great soundtracks that you all enjoy and you get pictures flying through the air as an added bonus. Why can't the music side compete with the movie end for cost?

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  • audio_alan
    audio_alan Posts: 770
    edited June 2011
    I think On3s&Z3r0s hit the nail on the head with his comment about listening to CD's more often. Even a great movie I'll only watch every couple of years, at most. I'll listen to a great CD much more often that that. Well worth the money if it's a CD that I enjoy...

    DVD's that sell for $5 usually deserve to be sold for $5. 'Nuff said.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,990
    edited June 2011
    cfrizz wrote: »
    There are very few acts that are still able to put out an entire album that is worth buying.

    Heck Cathy, I felt that way for 20 years. Not too many albums/cd's that I like more than 3 songs on them...recently anyway.
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