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Mulva
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or free if you aren't brand new to the internet

http://www.thestate.com/entertain-index/story/741634.html

4/8/2009 11:35:22 AM

Spontaneous
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Son of a bitch.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM. Reason : Is Apple even aware of this fucking recession?]

4/8/2009 11:37:43 AM

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recessions don't affect rich white kids in suburbia. daddy will give you money till he's broke. and he won't be broke any time soon

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:40 AM. Reason : or does it?]

4/8/2009 11:39:27 AM

qntmfred
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Quote :
"began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece."


and it wasn't apple who wanted to do this. it was the record companies. they basically said we'll let you sell mp3s with no copy protection if you let us charge more for popular songs

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM. Reason : i get all my music from pandora/last.fm or http://www.seeqpod.com/mobile/iphone.php#_home]

4/8/2009 11:40:04 AM

tl
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Some songs $1.29, some $.99, and some $.69.

Apple claims that more songs are .69 than 1.29, but that doesn't seem to be the case in reality.
And it's not like Apple is the one doing the money-grubbing here. Apple was a huge fan of .99 across the board. They even wanted DRM-free music. But the record companies refused to issue DRM-free music without a compromise. So they get more cash.

4/8/2009 11:42:30 AM

d7freestyler
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so are all the shitty radio songs $1.29 or is this spilling over into good music?

(admittedly, i didn't read the article)

4/8/2009 11:43:35 AM

mdozer73
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it is based on popularity.

i would wager that a song can be released at $.99 and then be downloaded a lot and they bump it to $1.29

4/8/2009 11:45:53 AM

Spontaneous
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Quote :
"and it wasn't apple who wanted to do this. it was the record companies. they basically said we'll let you sell mp3s with no copy protection if you let us charge more for popular songs"


Quote :
"And it's not like Apple is the one doing the money-grubbing here. Apple was a huge fan of .99 across the board. They even wanted DRM-free music. But the record companies refused to issue DRM-free music without a compromise. So they get more cash."

That makes more sense.

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"recessions don't affect rich white kids in suburbia. daddy will give you money till he's broke. and he won't be broke any time soon"

Truth.

4/8/2009 11:47:02 AM

d7freestyler
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well, at least it's DRM free now.

4/8/2009 11:51:42 AM

wdprice3
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^

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM. Reason : they need to let me redownload all my drm'd shit for free now. bitches]

4/8/2009 11:52:24 AM

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good thing popular music is shitty

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:53 AM. Reason : isn't that right vinylbandit? ]

4/8/2009 11:52:57 AM

wdprice3
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lol. music elitists.

4/8/2009 11:53:57 AM

d7freestyler
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meh. i don't like much popular music, but i don't think it's because i'm a music elitist, i think it's just because i have different tastes then what radio forces down our throats.

satellite radio ftw

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM. Reason : siriusly]

4/8/2009 11:54:43 AM

MisterGreen
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OMG YOUR MUSIC SUCKS, MINE IS THE BEST.

4/8/2009 12:02:00 PM

se7entythree
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they talked about doing this a long ass time ago

[old]

4/8/2009 12:02:22 PM

d7freestyler
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^^ i never said that. i just like different stuff.

^ but did they?

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 12:05 PM. Reason : t]

4/8/2009 12:05:00 PM

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^^

4/8/2009 12:34:50 PM

RSXTypeS
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pricing structure is 69, 99, 1.29

but its 100% DRM free.

so whats your point?

Albums are still on average 9.99.

oh and its not breaking news. its [OLD] news.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 12:50 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2009 12:48:41 PM

aph319
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Amazon and Wal Mart have followed suit.

4/8/2009 12:50:20 PM

RSXTypeS
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^considering all the music comes from the same money grubbing old men, makes perfect sense.

4/8/2009 12:51:41 PM

homeslice11
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yea saw that this morning - its not the concept of $1.29 - its the idea of the greedy artists that won't stop until they get screwed over....again

4/8/2009 12:57:55 PM

se7entythree
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that talked all about it at the last apple conference thing, and it might have been mentioned/rumored at the previous one too.

4/8/2009 1:14:37 PM

aph319
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^^i don't think it's the artists who are the greedy ones

4/8/2009 1:27:53 PM

jbtilley
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Sounds like this only affects 14 year old girl music.

4/8/2009 1:47:50 PM

dubus
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http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49300555,00.htm

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090113/0707133391.shtml

Just because there's no DRM doesn't mean sharing them is still all that safe. Although I'm sure it isn't hard to find a way to pull the email address off of the file without ruining the file itself. Someone will have a program for that I'm sure.

[Edited on April 8, 2009 at 1:56 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2009 1:56:06 PM

evan
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give me FLAC or give me death

4/8/2009 4:38:58 PM

Spontaneous
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^ Hells yeah!

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"Sounds like this only affects 14 year old girl music."

Winner.

4/8/2009 4:42:06 PM

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