link Basically, WalMart knows that $15 for a cd is crap and their shoppers aren't buying. WalMart says reduce the prices, or we won't carry your music. Since WalMart is the biggest music seller in the country, the labels are listening.
5 is a bit low, I know most music stores sell their cd's for 17-23 dollars... which is a rip I think 9.95 is better for new releases... and they wonder why people download music!
Pfft, we have to pay £9 and above for singles, that's the equivalent of just over $16 (USD)!!! - H. PS: that means you pay just over £5 as it is. *jealous*
If cd's were <$10, I would definetely be buying more. Not really for me, but for my kids. There have been many times when we were in Walmart (or wherever) and one of them wanted to get a cd but I refuse to pay $16 for one. Anyone old enough to remember back when cd's first started coming out? Remember the record lables saying that they are charging more for the cd's for only a short time because of the expense of the equipment and that they plan on reducing the cost of a cd to under 10 bucks? Pff.
"Along with other giant retailers such as Best Buy and Target, Wal-Mart willingly loses money selling CDs for less than $10 (they buy most hit CDs from distributors for around $12). These companies use bargain CDs to lure consumers to the store, hoping they might also grab a boombox or a DVD player while checking out the music deals." Wow, they took one for the team, now there taking an even bigger one for the team Ive never shopped at wal-mart, but... if this makes a differance, then bless their cotton socks
Music is so overpriced, I can't believe it. If you think I'm paying $17 for an hours worth of music, you're going to be dissapointed. I could go and buy a DVD movie for that price, and it's gonna be at least 2 hours long (plus it comes with video too!). $10 is a good start, but I think around $8 would be fair. After all, it doesn't cost a fortinue to burn a CD any more. Heck, offer it for download at $8 an album and I'll save you the expence!
The thing is, if CDs were around $5, you could honestly have vending machines... Kids could buy the latest single/cd when they got out of school... and they would too.
If CDs were £6-8 depending on their age I would currently own a small music library and there would be some very rich record bosses out there. As it stands CDs in the UK are >£9.99 and I haven't bought one since 2002
I vowed to never purchase a CD off the shelf last year, and I haven't. I listen to listner-supported radio, that means free music without advertising If CDs were <=$10 after sales tax, I would buy all of my favorite artist's CDs. But if the record industry wants to say CDs cost too much to make, maybe they should consult with the movie industry. It has to cost more to make a movie, right? And CDs usually sell more than movies too! And yes, music vending machines would rock.
Damn, that's one HELL of an idea!! Not just to dispense cd's, you can select the tracks you want and have the machine burn a custom disc!! * tries to find funding
I once saw a vending machine that was selling CD's. It looked just like the regular candy machine with the spiral things but it had a CD in it. It was only $4 to. It’s been 10 years since I last bought a CD.
If I wanted to buy any good cd it would cost me at least $20 here and I can burn over 600 hours of music for that price (50 cds x 12 hours {mp3's }). If they dropped prices down to $10 or less I would at least consider buying some of the cds I want.
Yeah... Generally we have CD's at about £11.99-£15.99 in the shops with some ranging up to like £18.99 (That's 22$-29$ with upto about 35$) Which sucks most of the time. Consequently i don't own even half the albums i'd like to (if they were like 10$ over here, i'd have a massive collection of albums; it might even rival penski's
There is absolutely no way I am willing to pay 10-15 pounds to listen to the one good song in the album (or two if I am extremely lucky, with the current lack of talent). Much rather just tune into Winamp radio. That way I have an unlimited supply of music and I dont have to keep changing it or queueing it up.
ahem. 'tis a good idea... methinks... something like an edited version of nero could do it... I don't know what cdroast is like, but if you have a graphical menu to choose band/genre/song and a small screen to show the order of the songs... then you pay $0.50/song... The real lovely thing about that is you can usually get >16 songs on a CD and $10 would land you 20 songs... But then again, the more costly the vending machine the fewer locations it can run... Could be good at malls and the like, but probably not at schools (even if the kids wanted a CD, the line would be too long and kids would start missing classes and the principal would get rid of the machine)
the lack of talent is what gets me. At the moment it seems almost literally artists get a dance ejay type track then sing a song about lust and sexin' some guy/girl up over it. Its awful. We need good guys back like Abba, Beetles, even MC Hammer. While not all of their music was fantastic, they could get an album worth of hits out!
