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Originally posted by Derwood
Quick question. Did you people buy CD's 5 years ago?
I ask because the cost of a CD has pretty much stayed the same for the past 12 years. CD's were $15 back in 1990 when I started buying them, and in some places (ie Best Buy and Circuit City) are now CHEAPER than they were before.
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I bought CD's "back in the day" and sometimes I wasted $15-20 on a real fancy reflective coaster. Back then I was real selective about what I buy and still managed to grab a few stinkers. Today, I can try before I buy and haven't been upset about a CD purchase in the last couple of years.
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I taught at a small college last year, and was appalled by seeing kids with big 50-CD carrying cases full of CD-R's....and not mix CD's, just straight up albums.
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This
is wrong. I think most folks just give a few songs a try and then go buy the album. Stuff like that just gives the responsible song swapping public a bad name.
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My feeling is that if you can't afford a CD, you don't deserve to have it, no matter what you think of the company putting it out. I can't afford a Mercedes, but that doesnt' mean that my hatred towards European automakers gives me the right to steal a Mercedes. It means if I want one, I have to save for it.
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But you wouldn't want to invest $40,000 + in a Mercedes without giving her a once over and a drive around the lot would you? $40,000 or $20 it still manages to piss most people off when they "waste" money on a piece of crap
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Originally posted by scoreman
I don't think that the music industry is down because of the downloading, it's just that all of the music being put out now sucks.
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Absolutely. It's just easier to blame the "evil Internet" then it is to admit that the product is washed out crap or worse yet, embrace the technology and use it to their advantage instead of playing Gestapo on p2p networks.