DallasPA Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Greeting, I happen to be watching television yesterday and noticed a lot of CD's being sold for $10.99. Well its been a while since I've done a distribution deal, but that pricing seemed real low, maybe too low. For years I thought CD's were selling for way too much money. Now it seems, to combat pirating, the bottom is falling out. Maybe the Music Industry needs something similar to OPEC. All the labels and major Distributors get together and lay a flat price for CD's based on size and genre. Once this price is set everybody including Best Buy, and Wal Mart would have to adhere to this retail pricing structure. I do see many positives in this as long as the pricing was fair. Before making a purchase the buyer would already know what any given CD was going to cost; the market would eventually get conditioned and realize this is what we must pay for music; and it would definitely prevent the CD dumping that some labels have started doing, by dropping the pricing of their CD's so low. Just a few of my private thoughts. Dallas http://TrilogySound.com Reading, PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 According to an article I read earlier today, the answer to the downloading issue may be $5... http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62434,00.html Actually, I think you'd run the risk of violating laws and anti-trust regulations if you did an OPEC style approach to CD pricing - it's called "price fixing" and it's illegal. But I do share some of your concerns about the trend to "undervalue / devalue" music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovepusher Sly Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 The price has already been fixed, it's .99¢ per tune. Regardless what a CD would, should, could cost, the price I'm willing to pay is .99¢ per tune. If I want to buy a paticular song, I'll go to iTumes Music Store and look for it, if it's there I'll buy it, if it's not there f*ck it. It's a new world, and IMO the CD has had it. Here in Chicago there's a well known DJ, he's been on the radio for 40+ years, he still goes out and does the occasional gig, he's 75+? years old, and his live rig is a laptop and two hard drives. He has converted his entire collection of vinyl to mp3's (and it's huge). Not a CD in sight. I said all that to say, who cares what a CD costs? You may eventuall see CD's gong for $2 or $3, I predict that CD's from top artist will be going for $7 to $8. The CD has seen it's day, it now basically replaces Floppies & Zip drives. It doesn't matter what's on a CD, the percieved value has gone down, and it can't be brought back up. So at .99¢ per song $10 will be the maximum I'LL pay for a new CD with 10 songs on it. DVD mp3 will be he new thing. Now imagine 800 (mp3) songs on a DVD, there's your NEW value. Even at 44.1K/16bit you could get 80 songs, that's the pricing that needs to be figured out. What would you pay? Sly Whasineva ehaiz, ehissgot ta be Funky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasPA Posted February 27, 2004 Author Share Posted February 27, 2004 Hmmmmm, One problem an MP3 doesn't even come close to a regular CD sonically. Dallas http://TrilogySound.com Reading, PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovepusher Sly Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 In my car they sound fine, better than the radio. Plus, like I said, you could put about 80 CD's (44.1/16) on a DVD. Sly Whasineva ehaiz, ehissgot ta be Funky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Two words: Recoupable costs When accounting games go away, maybe... RobT Famous Musical Quotes: "I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve" - Xavier Cugat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Strat Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Originally posted by Groovepusher Sly: In my car they sound fine, better than the radio. Plus, like I said, you could put about 80 CD's (44.1/16) on a DVD. Sly At $1.00 per song, 10 songs on a CD, 80 CD's on a DVD disc you're looking at $800 for a piece of plastic. Not gonna happen, no matter how much music you can pack on a disc. BlueStrat a.k.a. "El Guapo" ...Better fuzz through science... http://geocities.com/teleman28056/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovepusher Sly Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Originally posted by Groovepusher Sly: DVD mp3 will be he new thing. Now imagine 800 (mp3) songs on a DVD, there's your NEW value. Even at 44.1K/16bit you could get 80 songs, that's the pricing that needs to be figured out. What would you pay?And that is the question. What would you pay? I doth quoteth myself. Sly Plus I said, 80 songs, that's $80 bucks. How I arrived at that number? Average 44.1K/16bit tune = approx. 50MB X 80 = 4GB. The 80 CD's worth would be mp3's for sure (avg. 5MB tune), and I guess would / should cost less than a dollar each if you're buying 800. Whasineva ehaiz, ehissgot ta be Funky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archer Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 No, I don't think a standard pricing structure would help. For selfish reasons I would like to start seeing price wars. Me and my two dogs, Remington and Winchester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Standard pricing certainly wouldn't help the indie labels, which need to recoup as much of theiir costs from basically everything they can sell that points back to the music. For those folks, it might be a detriment, unless some sort of balance can be worked out. I'd like to see what some of the indie folks think of this idea. Lee, DJDM, anyone? sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I still like the weedshare.com model the best. You only pay for what you like, and you can make money on it! Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I had forgotten about www.weedshare.com - I looked into it breifly when you first mentioned it and thought it was a good idea, and then quickly forgot about it. I'll definitely give it another look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourMotherShouldKnow Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Craig, so the weedshare is workin' out for ya? Does it look like they'll be around for awhile? As for standard pricing structure: NO NO NO!!!! That's communism! That means there is no private ownership. The private owners of the music must be free to charge what they believe is their best market price. Leave them alone. Damn! Edit: cleaned up my language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowly Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I pay 9.95 a month for cable music service, with the ability to record for $.79. I love it. Kcbass "Let It Be!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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