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" To: 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" >> To: >> 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). >> > >> > >> >> >> >