The Decline of the Music Business

I think I paid $14.99 at Vintage Vinyl here in St. Louis. I'm just pissed off that for $5.00 less I could have gotten one more song on I-Tunes. I would pay $.99 for that song, but it is album only. Give me a break.

@Saul
The chain used to called the Warehouse, now its called FYE.

@ Brenna
YEAH! BRENNA RULES!

@Saul
I see what you're saying, but the problem is that most consumers don't care about, or want, an actual CD. They just want the one song they like off of that CD. There are, like, less than 1/3 of the record stores that there were ten years ago, and that number is shrinking every day. Big chains like Tower Records are gone. I love records, and record/CD stores, but these are the facts. The way of buying music that we know and love is over.

I recognize that price tag, what store is that?
I think selling mp3s in an attempt to get sales up is ridiculous, it takes away the one different (actual CD} of buying the music as opposed to me illegally downloading it. There is no actual motivation whatsoever to buy an mp3 file that is also available for free exactly the same.

enjoy!

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The stupid thing about the music business, is that it is one of the few industries that could have really benefited from the internet (mp3s - no shipping costs, no actual physical product, 90% hype}. If only they had not been so greedy. If iTunes (or something like it} had been in place before Napster hit, the music industry would have been way ahead of the game.

Here in Brazil to buy one import nerf herder album, you have to pay 30 dollars at least... But i keep defending the faith!

The price of music is ruining the oil business...

-W

The price of oil is ruining the music business.