Musical Pricing Schemes Over At iTunes
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My wife lives on iTunes, it’s where she tends to spend a fair share of her disposable income a month. and with the music selection made available, who can really blame here. I mean, iTunes has practically everything a music lover could ever want, right?
This is what I, amongst a host of others used to think about using iTunes vs other like minded services. But now with iTunes pricing their stuff all over the place, the attraction is going away quickly. Even worse, the less popular music is what is being sold at the lesser price while the hot stuff is going for over a dollar!
Now to be fair, it sounds to me like much of this is out of Apple’s hands. After all, we are talking about the music industry trying to prove that we still need them, which outside of concert promotion, we do not. What do you think? Does the new iTunes variable pricing bother any of you at all?
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Preston Kemp
April 7th, 2009
at 8:20pm
If they don’t change the prices soon i’m gonna find a new way to buy music.
kpslover007
April 7th, 2009
at 8:20pm
I welcome the cheaper stuff. If some of the songs I want to buy in my shopping cart get cheaper, I will buy those first! As for the stuff at $1.29, fugetabatit!
Matteo Mobilio
April 7th, 2009
at 8:29pm
They really can’t do this. Are they now classifying music as ‘good and ‘bad’? You usually pay more for something when it’s better but this is just based on popularity.
Shame on Apple!
Jonathan Wilson
April 7th, 2009
at 8:44pm
I licked there pricing the way it was before, but like you said, it is the music industry that is putting the pressure on Apple to change. It’s not going to stop me from buying music, but it does make me hate the music industry a lot more.
Michael
April 7th, 2009
at 8:56pm
THe music industry as we currently know it is dead. They just haven’t been told about it yet. Musicians have the ability to professionally record, mix, and release their music for a fraction of what the industry says it costs, and they can keep most of the profits. The industry, which refuses to change to meet the times, is like a dying animal, trying to hold onto whatever it can. Ultimately, it will change. It will just be a question or who is in charge then.
The RIAA is nothing but a modern day Moffia. A group of thugs and gangsters that are pursuing the modern day equivalent of famous mobsters past. They should be the ones arrested and thrown in jail.
The real issue is that no one in the music industry has tried to answer the big question: how do you profit in the 21st century with all the technology available? What can you offer that can’t already be done by others? No, rather than answer that question, they would rather sue, or hold price gouging wars to maintain some semblance of control.
The simple answer for us is this: don’t buy their music. Don’t feed the machine. Buy the tracks that cost less. Or don’t buy from them at all (don’t pirate of course, either). We, the consumer, have the ultimate say in what gets sold in this country and what doesn’t It is time for musicians, listeners, consumers, and creators, to take back our music! Support the artist, not the fat cat.
Ruki
April 7th, 2009
at 9:08pm
What I’m really wondering, for a company that made the music industry danced to it’s tune when they said “.99 cents per song” after much struggle, is why is Apple backing down from its previous business model? What did the music industry do to them to made Apple reconsider its position?
The answer to these questions still elude me, sadly.