Hello
everybody, I don't want to start a debate on the price of the cd but I would
simply tell that working in the music biz for some years (started working in
themusic field in 1989) and seeing how it goes on different levels of
this industry (being an artist as well) I justify the price of the
cd.
Why
don't you ask a lot of artist that says the price is high to low down their
requests??? I can tell you prices on promotion are incredibly high, and
artists of all kind don't usually take care about this....and what about
contracts?
What I
can also say is that the price might be too high if you compare it with the
quality of the job done; in the seventies and in the eighties the records were
fullof singles and great songs, inthe nineties, you can save just a
few....
And
don't tell me the price of a cd is high if you compare it to a night spent out
in a disco or just eating somewhere...even eating a simple
pizza....
The
work behind a record is often hidden but you have to consider how many people
work on it.
Ciao
ciao
Giovanni
Ps.:
I've been working as mainbuyer at Virgin Megastore Italy, as buyer for different
italian chain stores, as musician, as producer, as label
manager....
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[mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com]Per conto di Gary
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Inviato: giovedì 20 novembre 2003 5.48
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Oggetto: [Police] cd prices
Amaryll hit the nail on the head. The record
companies suck. I'd rather download the album from the net and send the artist
a dollar rather than driving to the record store and spending an hour's labor
for the cd, only a few pennies of which the artist will ever see from the
record companies. I think the biggest reason for music piracy is the fact that
cd's cost too damn much.
Amaryll
said...
>>I
remember when CD's were first introduced the record companies said that
as
soon as cd's became mainstream the prices would drop, because it is a
LOT
cheaper to manufacture cd's than the old LP's and cassettes. This
never
happened. The prices stayed the same, and even increased in some
cases, with
the record companies pocketing all that extra revenue. I have
no sympathy at
all for the record companies.
And now, with two of
the world's largest record companies, BMG and SONY ,
about to merge, ( that
is, if the senate antitrust committee approves the
merger) we will be all
the more at their
mercy.<<