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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: iTunes |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 23:10:20 -0400 |
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Yeah, I paid $5.99 for the Lily Allen album at Newbury Comics the week
it came out.
Am I the only one who's creeped out by how much Amy Winehouse is
starting to look like Shane McGowan with a beehive? Those of you who
enter celebrity death pools, mark your calendars now!
S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Lukoff" <blukoff@alvord.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: iTunes
> At those prices I'd rather have the non-DRM CD.
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mark Eichelberger wrote:
>
>> I have bought entire albums at the USA ITunes. The most recent
>> Trolleyvox,
>> Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen come to mind. All of the albums I
>> have
>> purchased have been priced between $7.99 to $9.99, which, IMHO,
>> seems quite
>> reasonable. (Although they do have albums available that are
>> priced
>> higher.) The downloads are 128 kbps AAC files.
>> Mark
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Hutton" <bobhutton@btinternet.com>
>> To: <audities@smoe.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: iTunes
>>
>>
>> > Jaimie, what I was getting at was this: the price iTunes charges
>> > per song
>> > doesn't entice anyone I know to download whole albums' worth of
>> > songs on a
>> > regular basis . I know a few who will stump up for the odd song
>> > now and
>> > again, but that's it. Do any Auditeers download albums from
>> > iTunes
>> > regularly? I can't remember exactly how many songs you can fit
>> > (on
>> > average) onto a 30GB iPod - is it 15,000 or so? If so, that
>> > means it
>> > would cost $15,000 dollars to fill your iPod, assuming you bought
>> > all the
>> > music from Apple.
>> >
>> > Say an average album has 10 tracks - that means $10 to download
>> > it. By
>> > your reckoning, you would see $8.60 of that. How does that
>> > compare with a
>> > CD?
>> > I suppose what I am saying in essence is that I agree with the
>> > guy in the
>> > Chicago Tribune article - 25 cents does seem a fairer price for
>> > me to pay
>> > for mere downloads as opposed to CDs. And if Apple charged a
>> > quarter of
>> > the current price, would they then maybe sell more than 4 times
>> > as many
>> > tracks? I don't know the answer to that of course, all I am
>> > trying to do
>> > is tell it from a consumer's viewpoint (my own and people I
>> > know).
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
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