and another thing

[deathboy]

OH, PEOPLE JUST STEAL MUSIC, THEY'RE SUCH BASTARDS, WOES!

[as Irish ISPs fold to the will of people with big lawyers... cunts...]

Well, I just went to buy M.I.A.'s "Kala", as it reminds me of my bird, and ooh, lookie...

£4.98 for the CD. £6.99 for the mp3s.

MAYBE IT SHOULD COST LESS TO BUY THE MP3s OF A FUCKING ALBUM THAN TO BUY THE FUCKING PHYSICAL PRODUCT.

A single example, I know, but this happens all the fucking time. So! Yet again, I'll steal the mp3s so I can listen now, and order the CD to support the artist.

Same goes for fucking ebooks, that tend to be 90% of the price of the paper version, despite there being no fucking physical product to sit on your bookshelf.

YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

fucking morons.

[edit]: In fact, fuck y'all, I'll just listen to it on Spotify.

Comments

[the_axel]

I can download 8GB of video game for $20 from Direct2Drive.

A full CD is 650MB.

US$20 = UKP14.3

So, if half the cost of that download is consumed by the website then it costs 0.09p per meg which means that for the same amount of data, a CD would cost 58p.

Assume 15 songs on an album that's 4p.

Hang on a minute tho'...

In NAm songs are $0.99 so if English songs go for a quid to 1.50 that means music costs 40 - 110% more in the UK now.
6 months ago songs cost 110% - 230% more in the UK than in the US.

So I guess prices in the UK will have to go up massively to support that drop in the exchange rate...

Or maybe the cost of downloading a song is pulled out of Sony Music's CEO's arse.

[doctor-bob.livejournal.com]

Well, we know that bandwidth isn't really that much of an overhead, plus the UK have often had to pay higher prices (I'm thinking consoles and computer games here).

Or maybe the cost of downloading a song is pulled out of Sony Music's CEO's arse.

Let's face it, that's where they got the price of a CD ;-)