Hello everybody, I don't want to start a debate on the price of the cd but I would simply tell that working in the music biz for some years (started working in themusic field in 1989) and seeing how it goes on different levels of this industry (being an artist as well) I justify the price of the cd. Why don't you ask a lot of artist that says the price is high to low down their requests??? I can tell you prices on promotion are incredibly high, and artists of all kind don't usually take care about this....and what about contracts? What I can also say is that the price might be too high if you compare it with the quality of the job done; in the seventies and in the eighties the records were fullof singles and great songs, inthe nineties, you can save just a few.... And don't tell me the price of a cd is high if you compare it to a night spent out in a disco or just eating somewhere...even eating a simple pizza.... The work behind a record is often hidden but you have to consider how many people work on it. Ciao ciao Giovanni Ps.: I've been working as mainbuyer at Virgin Megastore Italy, as buyer for different italian chain stores, as musician, as producer, as label manager.... -----Messaggio originale----- Da: police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]Per conto di Gary Schmitz Inviato: giovedì 20 novembre 2003 5.48 A: police list Oggetto: [Police] cd prices Amaryll hit the nail on the head. The record companies suck. I'd rather download the album from the net and send the artist a dollar rather than driving to the record store and spending an hour's labor for the cd, only a few pennies of which the artist will ever see from the record companies. I think the biggest reason for music piracy is the fact that cd's cost too damn much. Amaryll said...
I remember when CD's were first introduced the record companies said that as soon as cd's became mainstream the prices would drop, because it is a LOT cheaper to manufacture cd's than the old LP's and cassettes. This never happened. The prices stayed the same, and even increased in some cases, with the record companies pocketing all that extra revenue. I have no sympathy at all for the record companies. And now, with two of the world's largest record companies, BMG and SONY , about to merge, ( that is, if the senate antitrust committee approves the merger) we will be all the more at their mercy.<<