ITUNES Price Hike

[prstudio]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?action=crf&category=main&cid=212510&id=19347

[McGuffin]

Coming from neowin? And if it was the music industry making the decision, all legal music downloading services would need to charge the same price range.

[mdipi]

If you could edit the title to "Potential iTunes Music Store Price Hike" i think that would be more fitting, becasue its just a potential.

At that price, no one would buy from anywhere, look at Wal*Mart 88cents per song? Thats WAY to ceap if you ask me.

If this were to happen, i wouldnt mind seeing a boycott, because they are now asking for it, as soon as people start to leagly buy their music, they want to stop that...it really is stupid.

-Mike

[kirupa]

Coming from neowin? And if it was the music industry making the decision, all legal music downloading services would need to charge the same price range.Neowin vary rarely writes their own news, but like this forum, they summarize snippets of the news from a larger outlet. In this case it was MacWorld: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8493

:moustache

[prstudio]

This article was one of many on the subject.
Only a matter of time before the legal music pay per song went to pieces eh?

[nobody]

Oh what the poo. That's bull. I rarely download songs, but when I do I don't mind forking out a dollar for it, though I generallyl just buy cd's because I like shiny things. But really, that's a terrible idea. Argh.

[mdipi]

Josh, dont worry, once they see that HUGE illeagle download spike if they raise the prices, they will come down REAL fast :D

[thoriphes]

that's two and a half songs. screw it, i'm buying CDs.

[kirupa]

I always buy CDs because I like getting a chance to actually physically see the CD, the designs, the random stuff throughout the covers, etc. :)

[McGuffin]

I agree with Kirupa, most CDs I buy have awesome inspirational designers on them :)

[mdipi]

I just look at my friends CD's lol. It works great :D

[Thinker2501]

This demonstrates perfectly how having 5 corporations control 80% of the music is bad for the consumer. Nothing short of a near collapse of the industry will make the RIAA and it's cronnies change their ways. Anyone who purchases music from RIAA labels is only contributing to the problem. If you think that by purchasing music you are helping the artist you are in a dreamland. Most artists only make a few cents off the $16 CD you just purchased, if you really want to support an artist go see their concert where the corporation doesn't take a cut.

Legal online music downloading is only a scam so the corporations can reduce manufacturing costs and still charge the same. They people hooked with a nice low price, then they jack it up. I strongly urge everyone here to boycott RIAA music.

[Jeff Wheeler]

I download legal music, mostly because my bro left 3,000 legal songs for me when he moved away and so I started out legal and figured, what the heck? I might as well stay legal, no point in stopping now as long as I can easily afford a buck, but I don't use itunes. I love mac, but musicmatch just works for me if you catch my drift. :D

[mdipi]

I dont catch your drift, but ok :D

Its no big deal what you use, its as thinker said, the stupid suits taht wanna make our life hell...