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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: Universal Music cuts CD prices (warning: industry rant) |
| Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:24:13 -0700 |
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> How many homes in America have Internet access? And how many of
> those homes have broadband?
Exactly. The majors are making decisions that affect who will be
able to purchase new music, due to their own economic situation...
or their parent's...This may or may not be a good example, but
in the "old days", a kid could walk to the retail store with their
hard-earned allowance money and buy a few 45 singles a week...
(that's what I did anyway)...Then kids were able to buy albums
pretty easily because the prices were still low (I know, cuz that's
what I did), but how many kids have actually been able to go to
into a retail store and buy full-price CDs? (fewer, I think, even
though allowance money has been increased over the years), but
you can see how the cost of purchasing your own copy led to
people "sharing" music (via taping, burning CDs, etc.). And what's
next? The majors are selecting a specific economic strata (if that's
the right word, probably not) who not only own computers, but
have the software for downloading their tracks (individually),
tranferring that to some other kind of expensive digital player,
whether it's an iTunes, or whatever....And so, what about the
kids who can't afford it -- they're cut out of the music "owning"
loop, right?
Bryan
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