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[Dev]

I've been pleased to see on Amazon.com some of the prices of new cds come down to $9.99 ~ $10.99.

One thing I don't get though is why their Canadian site is so expensive.

Amazon USA - Sleater Kinney "The Woods" = $11.99 USD
Amazon Canada Same cd = $20.99 CAD ($18.60 USD)

What the beeeep! Same company and we have NAFTA. $6.61 more for the same cd. What gives?

A lot of their cds are so much more on the Canadian site. Proves that you'd better shop around.

[JongnoGuru]

[Greekfreak]

Six years ago I bought an MD player, and shortly thereafter, stopped buying CDs as a rule, unless I found something I knew to be either rare or just an essential purchase.

Case in point? SKC plaza outlets were selling Japanese Miles Davis imports with the miniature LP sleeves for 10 and 20g's for single and double LPs. They usually sold for double on Amazon. I must have picked up 20-30 titles.

Then after getting married I finally got a computer at home, and since then I've only picked up used CDs when I know they're otherwise out of print. Case in point? An old out-of-print copy of Jimi's "The Cry Of Love".

During my high school years I used to dj and would raid the city pawn brokers for 13-20 Cds at a time, when they used to sell them at 5 bucks a pop. So when you're looking at a collection spanning literally 1000s of cds, you eventually start to think at consolidating.

As it is these days, I'll buy them as gifts for other people if at all. Most of the stuff I've downloaded, I purchased in some legitimate form many years ago and still own. The rest is bootlegged material that's not supposed to be released anyway.

[Dev]

Here's another good question, I just went onto Amazon.co.uk and the cd I spoke of earlier sells for 9.98 pounds. That's $20 USD. That's theft. How can a mail order operation sell the same cd in another country for almost double the price?

If it were an actual store that has to pay premium rents in London, I could kind of understand that a bit, but....

[SPINOZA]

Re the price of CDs, since 2000, it's only really newly released CDs that are expensive. There were always huge sales of bands' back catalogues for prices like 3 or 5 GBP per CD. I still prefer free however. As I said, I shall support my favorite band and buy their CDs and I love my huge Floyd/Bowie (and others) collections, but in this day and age of file sharing (and I rarely listen to modern, plodding, gigging groups who need and deserve to be paid) I'm unlikely to part with my beloved green man-wons to fill the coffers of someone who's fortune probably earns more in interest in a month than I do in capital per annum. I don't feel the moral compulsion I'm afraid.

[Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat]

[igotthisguitar]

Springsteen Returns to No. 1
Wed Oct 24, 2:57 PM

By Katie Hasty

NEW YORK (Billboard) - In a slow week for album sales, Bruce Springsteen returned to the top of the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, a week after he lost the crown to Kid Rock.



Springsteen's "Magic" moved 77,000 copies during the week ended October 21, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Columbia Records release bowed at No. 1 three weeks ago with 335,000 units, and then slipped to No. 2.

Only a couple hundred sales short of the Boss' total, Kid Rock's "Rock N Roll Jesus" (Atlantic) fell to No. 2 in its second week, also with 77,000 units (figures are rounded).

Rascal Flatts' "Still Feels Good" held at No. 3 with 70,000. Josh Groban's holiday album "Noel" rose six places to No. 4 with 64,000.

Jimmy Eat World's "Chase This Light," the rock troupe's final release under its Interscope contract, debuted at No. 5 with 62,000 copies. Its previous release, 2004's "Futures." opened at No. 5 with 99,000 copies.

Reba McEntire's "Reba Duets" (MCA) rose one to No. 6 with 59,000, while Disney's "High School Musical 2" soundtrack jumped two to No. 7 with 57,000.

Santana earned his fourth top 10 album, as "Ultimate Santana" (Arista) bowed at No. 8 with 56,000 units.

Kanye West's "Graduation" (Def Jam) fell three to No. 9 with 54,000 units. Colbie Caillat rounded out the top tier with "Coco" (Universal), which rebounded six places to No. 10 with 50,000 units.

Only a handful of other albums debut in the top 50 this week. Angie Stone's "The Art of Love & War," released through the newly relaunched Stax label, entered at No. 11 with 45,000. Her last album, "Stone Love," bowed at No. 14 in 2004 with 53,000. Rock act Thrice's "The Alchemy Index: Vols. I & II" (Vagrant) debuted at No. 24 with 28,000, while Toby Keith's "Classic Christmas" (Show Dog) brought Christmas cheer to the No. 39 spot with 18,000.

Album sales were down 4.9% from last week at 7.93 million units, and down 19.6% from the same week in 2006 (9.86 million units).

Reuters/Billboard

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071024/entertainment/entertainment_sales_col

[Are they the lemmings]

[Bondrock]

for those who steal/download music illegally and attempt to justify it:

i suspect most of you are speaking from the point of view of those who do not create content.

how would you feel if someone downloaded that book you have been "planning to write" ; or if it was you who had "written, recorded and toured to promote" the song?

or someone stole your groceries?



the same excuses have been used for centuries: "everyone's doing it".

there is a big difference however in recording with a tape deck off the radio and P2P.

you see, every blank tape/ cd sold in a developed country contributes to the artist 'royalty' fund. if you are a member of a recording association you can benefit from those sales. no one benefits from illegal downloading, except the thief.

stealing is theft no matter how one "justifies" it.

[eamo]

I have no moral qualms at all about downloading what I want.

All during the 80's and 90's I spent thousands of pounds on CD's and records in rip-off UK. I've given my fair share of money to the record industry during the time when they were horribly greedy. 13 pounds per CD!!?? The was the rate for new release CD's for years and years. Way too much. Who was 'stealing' from who then?

Musicians don't really need record companies anymore anyway. Follow the Radiohead example. If I liked a band I would pay a few dollars to download their music directly from their website. Knowing the money is going to the musicians and not the fatcats who don't care about music would be enough incentive to start paying for music again.

Plus, recording costs are much lower these days. The technology to record a broadcast quality piece of music is quite cheap now. Record companies have less and less of a role to play.

[Tony_Balony]