music_news 91 posts

the music companies should understand the simple logic of supply and demand. nobody wants to pay 18-20 bucks for a cd anymore. they arent worth that much. on the otherhand, lowering the prices of cds will boost sales. afterall, if you think about it, it doesnt take much resources to copy/create retail cds. instead, the goverment fines it's citizens 2000 bucks and that 2000 dollars doesnt even go to the music industry!

How can they justify only a small price difference for cutting out middle-men,distribution agents, packing and the physical product and less we not forget a lower quality product due to compression. The statement that artists suffer is rubbish as record companies pay peanuts to their artists!

Greedy RIAA morons must look soon for another job and get less salary. RIAA will go bankruptcy. Nobody need the RIAA. Fuck them all!

I use to work for a CD manufacturer. Their cost to make the CD with the
insert and shrink wrap was 35 cents (US). Add a dollar for the artist,
double it to account for the wholesale distributor and you should be able to sell a CD for about 3 dollars.

The RIAA needs to realize that charging anymore than $10 is too much these days - there are too many other choices for music lovers. What all music lovers need to realize is that a huge part of the profit on each cd goes towards marketing and production costs of a cd. The answer is somewhere in the middle. I'd rather have the physical cd in my hands but I'm not going to pay $10 or more for it. If the total was around $5 I would buy the physical version. Until that happens, I'll continue to use allofmp3 and when/if it goes away I'll be forced back into file sharing.

agreed. 5 dollars at most i will pay for the physical cd. im going to stick to allofmp3

I hope that Allofmp3 doesn't cave in to the RIAA and close up. If the RIAA can pay off US politicians to pressure other countries to change laws, what does that say?

Prices on Cd's where suppose to drop when they where first introduced, but the prices soared way beyond.. We where promised less the $10 a
cd in the United States.. and we are stuck paying $15-$25. When it comes to mp3's most places don't offer cd quality mp3's. and we are still being charged for prices we would pay to go get the disc with the engraving on the disc, the case, and the laser printed sleeves.. etc.

People don't buy a CD and listen to it for months any more. They play it (on average) a few times. A dollar a time seems reasonable to me. AllofMP3 have the right pricing structure. It's a shame that the music companies are driven by greed and the need to support ridiculous advertising budgets and massively top-heavy company structures. For my 2 cents, I'd say $2 maufacturing/record company & $1 artist is quite adequate.

It is interesting, the record companies have been sued in the States for price fixing in the past. The bottom-line, to technoboy's point above, is that the record labels have WAY too much money and power. Proof by the level of political support that they have drummed up in the States, it is truly sickening and an example of a flaw in the capitalistic system. BUT, they only got this money and power by using illegal business practices like price fixing and setting a monopoly. I COMPLETELY support AOM! Do I feel bad, absolutely NOT! Artists don't make most of their money from CD sales. Record labels need to understand that the music industry is at this very moment under an HUGE industry revolution, they need to get on board or their ship will start sinking!

I find it hard to justify $0.99, $0.88 for a song. Unlike cds that do cost to make more of. Mp3s can be duplicated infinitely. I know artist should get their share. Nothings free. I think allofmp3 model is the right way. Why download questionable mp3 from p2p when you could pay 8 cents for decent quality songs.

While I completely am against the RIAA and it's fanatical greed war, I do need to point out that Internet or E-mail petitions are not legally binding in the United States. As there is little way to ensure accuracy, identity, and fairnes, they cannot hold up in court. The EFF is wasting valuable time and misleading the public in an attempt to fight the RIAA. I would respect them far more if they started a paper petition and got out on the streets to round up support.

But, in my past experience, a paper petition will not return results. As soon as someone commits their signature to that piece of paper (which is what actually makes it legally binding), they will start fearing the RIAA to come after each of them. Meaning no one will sign it. Americans like to complain loudly about injustices but refuse to actually put anything on the line to change it. Unless that changes, RIAA rules supreme in the music industry.

Someone needs to find out how much the RIAA is taking from the pockets of the artists/consumers and then try some type of class-action lawsuit.

If people actually woke up to what was going on around them and got out there and raised a voice - call up your congressman and Senator

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Let them know how you feel about it.

Call the news stations, the radio, anybody out there. That's what you have to do, that's what WE have to do is get up off our lazy american posteriors and go and make ourselves heard!

I got so damn sick of buying a CD only to find out that there were maybe 3 good songs and 8 "fluff" songs to fill the CD. That may the RIAA could make their money on the 3 good songs without "wasting" the rest of the songs. AND I got pissed that the 3 good songs were only released as individual singles to be played to adnauseam by the radio stations until I got sick fo hearing it. THEN I discovered that the listeners have no real say in what songs are played on the radio to begin with. I HATE THE RIAA!!!! They are so antiquated. They can not deny the advance of technology, they must embrace it. I will never pay $15 for a CD again.

Thank u riaa !!!!

I never know about allofmp3.com before, but now i can buy music very cheap... Thank u RIAA for making propaganda of this cheap vendor all over the world!

Nice move

c-ra use the click and buy website to buy credit then top up your account

The RIAA is trying desperately to remain relevant. They see the handwriting on the wall. Twenty years ago musical artists could not make it without the help of the RIAA and it's power to promote and distribute their music. Today it's simple and inexpensive to have a high quality recording studio in your own home and with the presence of the internet you can get your music promoted and heard (ie Red Hot Chili Peppers) without the help of the RIAA. In the end the RIAA will either have to be reasonable and drop DRM (digital rights management) and lower prices or they will cease to exist.

I don't agree that the EFF's electronic petition is meaningless. Elected representatives "get the message" when an electronic petition with 100,000 unique addresses is presented to them. TrueMajority has made a huge impact on US politics simply by collecting electronic petitions. Every politician who is interested in re-election knows about what True Majority is doing, and recent changes in congressional policy have followed the directions set by True Majority. EFF has a good chance of accomplishing its goals.

The RIAA/MPAA have been out of control for years, but they also have the money for political contributions. While I support the EFF petition, I will not sign it since I do not want to paint a target on my back for retaliation by the RIAA/MPAA. They just got themselves a list of 80,000+ potential defendants for free.

Mitch Bainwol, Cary Sherman, and the rest of the bunch can roast in hell, since that is where greedy bastards like them belong.