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Originally posted by RocHard
Last night the new David Mattews solo CD was released. It's a two disk CD. My wife bought two copies, since we tend to fight over anything Dave Matthews-ish. My wife was rather surprised to get this two disk CD for $11 on the first day of it's release.
Thanks to computers anyone can now burn disks, so we all now it costs nothing to produce these CDs. Newsweek recently quoted it costs $1.32 to produce a CD, and $1.84 to produce a a double CD. This includes delivery to the store. And they are selling them at $18 a pop. Bullshit.
I don't download music myself, and I have 600 CDs sitting on two racks within ten feet of my computer here in my home office. I'm tired of paying $18 for a fucking CD when I know it costs them $1.32.
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Thats not a reasonable argument. Everyone sells everything at a profit, if the RIAA isn't completely stupid they have long ago determined what the increase in sales by lowering prices would do for profits, versus keeping profits higher and obviously having fewer sales. And if they haven't well they are bunch of idiots who deserve to have their over priced product (for the most part) repeatedly stolen.