The Beatles on iTunes

[Monty Pigeon]

Sound quality worse than CD, no packaging, no transport costs, no retail costs, yet more expensive than CD: 99p per song, £10.99 per album, £17.99 per double album.

How does that work?

[Le Chuck]

its the same with play.com, theres loads of download albums for £7.99 or more yet they sell the CD version for under a fiver

[Gerrin]

Originally Posted by Le Chuck

its the same with play.com, theres loads of download albums for £7.99 or more yet they sell the CD version for under a fiver

Probably a clear sign that less and less people want or buy CD's. I packed all mine away years ago, never to be seen again.

[Monty Pigeon]

Originally Posted by Gerrin

Probably a clear sign that less and less people want or buy CD's. I packed all mine away years ago, never to be seen again.

I sold most of mine on Amazon, including all my Beatles CDs.

(Fortunately I ripped everything onto mp3, so I've never had to resort to iTunes to rebuy stuff i'd already bought.)

[Terry Tangles]

Originally Posted by Monty Pigeon

Sound quality worse than CD, no packaging, no transport costs, no retail costs, yet more expensive than CD: 99p per song, £10.99 per album, £17.99 per double album.

How does that work?

[not spavin]

Originally Posted by Monty Pigeon

Sound quality worse than CD, no packaging, no transport costs, no retail costs, yet more expensive than CD: 99p per song, £10.99 per album, £17.99 per double album.

How does that work?

You can download lossless from iTunes, so sound quality isn't worse.

After that, it's market forces. People don't want CDs, and you need to sell fewer downloads for the same profit.

The price is absurd of course, but that's capitalism. Or moreover, that's capitalism in a market where the majority of people steal the product. Paid-for downloads is a bit like car insurance, in that the law abiding subsidise the criminal.

[japs]

Really is daft, but a lot of people tend to have more money than sense.

[Thornton Heath Macke]

Just an idea....

have one one of them ol' turn-table things that spin 33/45rpm..

drop a bit of vinyl under a needle...

tune in.....drop out.. listen the way it was recorded.

Always sounds canny but a bugga when you you need 1000 tunes on the move....them ol' speakers can be a tad heavy!!

[not spavin]

Originally Posted by Thornton Heath Macke

Just an idea....

have one one of them ol' turn-table things that spin 33/45rpm..

drop a bit of vinyl under a needle...

tune in.....drop out.. listen the way it was recorded.

Always sounds canny but a bugga when you you need 1000 tunes on the move....them ol' speakers can be a tad heavy!!

I have Revolver on vinyl, never heard it any other way and it's still my favourite Beatles album by a mile.

[Le Chuck]

Originally Posted by Gerrin

Probably a clear sign that less and less people want or buy CD's. I packed all mine away years ago, never to be seen again.

but does somewhat contradict the music industry's agruement over why CD's cost so much