my name is mwd

Spotted this story on Andy’s blog - record companies are starting to price albums on digital download stores, such as the iTunes Music Store, higher than they can be bought on CD. What a good deal, eh? If you wanted further proof that record companies just want all the money they can get their hands on and have no shame in showing it, look no further. Currently they’re considering raising prices from $0.99 to $1.25 to $2.49 for individual tracks. Yum, I don’t think.

Certainly, as someone who hardly ever uses CD other than a way of getting music from the shop to my iBook and now my iPod mini, I’d cetainly planned on moving my purchasing of music from CDs to the iTMS once it was available in europe. The cost benefit was one reason, the convenience is another, but I’m weird and I like prowling arond music stores, and I’d probably miss that. The other one is that it reduces the number of CDs and plastic cases I’d need to buy, which really just sit gathering dust. But, if I’m going to be charged more for what is essentially less, then back to the record shop it is.

Link: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0407downloading07-ON.html