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RE: [PLUG] RIAA Begs For War.
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Mike wrote:
> Eugene Smiley said:
>> Paul wrote:
>>> Eugene Smiley wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you buy a CD through BMG or Columbia and wait for the 1.99
>>>> special each year, you end up paying $4.48 per CD with shipping
>>>> ($2.49 per CD). So for the same 16 songs, you pay 28 cents per
>>>> song. Hmmmm... Pay 99 cents and I don't get a backup of the
>>>> media to replace a lost track, or pay 28 cents and get media.
>>>> Apple's distribution channel shouldn't cost them 70+ cents
>>>> more than BMG/Columbia.
>
> I think there's more to it than that. You say 16 songs; is that
> 16 of your choosing, or the 16 (2 good; 14 crap) that are the
> average these days on a retail CD? :-)
>
> If I get to choose my own combination of which 16 songs, they may
> come from many CDs, and then the math above (and the comparison)
> becomes invalid).
I wrote about that in the eariler post. It's the part that wasn't quoted.
"Of course this is based on the assumption that the 16 tracks are good
tracks. If we take that out of the picture the price per good track is
anywhere between $4.48 per good track (for 1 good track of 16) to 28
cents per good track (where all 16 tracks are good)."
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