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Bullshit erkskindl . When you buy a CD, you are paying a TINY bit to the artist, a small amount to the cost to produce it, and the rest goes to people that have a monopoly and should be sued for antitrust. Of course you have to add a retail markup, BUT ONLINE THAT IS PALTRY... and it should be! All in all, a cd should cost about $2, and you can't use history as a pricing guide.
When someone pirates a cd, the artist gets ripped for a few cents, and NOBODY else gets hurt - period, and most of us would gladly toss a small fee to the artist who did the actual work. If you download, you do not cost the industry the price of a CD, as they never made one to steal, so if you would not have bought it in the firstplace, (and most people who download would not have bought it), it only HELPs the popularity of the artist to pirate their work.
Now if the industry would lower it price on CD's to the price they are actually worth... lets see... 2 good songs, about a buck or so online is what they go for I think, and 10 crappy ones - add 10 cents for that... $2.10 is what a CD should sell for. If it weren't for Christmas, the promo-production industry would be dead already and replaced by 100% web delivery by now. And I think they are about to go belly up if they don't change and change fast.
I already PAID for the artist on thousands of songs, but I have to buy every new media just so you can keep your Monopoly? Bullshit! I paid for the BeeGees 8 track and NOW I HAVE A RIGHT TO THE DIGITAL COPY AS I HAVE ALREADY PAID THE ARTIST!
Oh and by the way...
TRENT IS A GOD!