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deadnote
deadnote Posts: 1,678
edited January 2008 in A Moving Train
why is it so hard to drop your prices and pay the bills for music stores

i mean if i ownded a music stiore i wouldve kept it open just for the kids


its frustaring to me to sshop online becasue i love music stores so much


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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    Per the demand curve, price equals the intersection of demand and supply.

    Your gripe should be with people willing pay those prices. They are the ones who allow music distributors to think it's OK to gouge.
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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    With more people buying music online, and less tangible albums, they have to raise the prices because they need to make more off the product. The more popular downloading becomes the more expensive albums will become. And as a music consumer I can't rationalize spending 12-18 bucks on a CD when I can download the same thing (usually with extras), for 9.99 and have it instantly.
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    Indian Summer wrote:
    With more people buying music online, and less tangible albums, they have to raise the prices because they need to make more off the product. The more popular downloading becomes the more expensive albums will become. And as a music consumer I can't rationalize spending 12-18 bucks on a CD when I can download the same thing (usually with extras), for 9.99 and have it instantly.


    CD's have always been $12-$18. In-store prices have not gone up. They've remained static for the most part, and that's because enough people are still willing to pay those prices.
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  • Ledbetterus
    Ledbetterus Posts: 592
    Rolling Stone's most recent edition had a little graph of album sales over the passed 15 or so years.

    Something like a million less albums per year since 2003. And dropping.

    I don't have the mag on me right now, but it's probably up on RS.com.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Indian Summer wrote:
    With more people buying music online, and less tangible albums, they have to raise the prices because they need to make more off the product. The more popular downloading becomes the more expensive albums will become. And as a music consumer I can't rationalize spending 12-18 bucks on a CD when I can download the same thing (usually with extras), for 9.99 and have it instantly.
    It's similar to the problem I face as an "old school" photographer, i.e. I still use film. The price of slide film is going up because there is far less being sold, thus Fuji needs to raise the price to compensate. The same is true for developing. The cost of service has gone up as fewer and fewer places offer it.
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    deadnote wrote:
    i mean if i ownded a music stiore i wouldve kept it open just for the kids


    its frustaring to me to sshop online becasue i love music stores so much

    While I get what your saying I think it is alot easier to say you would keep your store open for the kids, when you don't actually a store. I am sure then when you really own a store and you are struggling to pay the bills and the rent so that your don't get evicted and your stuff doesn't get repo'ed it is a much harder decision to make.

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