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All music should be the same price
First year of release:
Songs: £1.29 albums: £5 After 1 year old songs: 89p albums: £4 or thereabouts. To stop some singles getting increased chart success just because they are cheaper. Make it a fairer market. |
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so you want a restriction on trade, which is currently illegal?
why should some peice of shit music cost the same as a great peice of music? that's pretty much how itunes treats things. few other things in life cost the same regardless of if they are good or bad, so why should music be different? |
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meh most people download from free sites anyway
Only if your a fan of an artist you buy the album to support them
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Fine if all music cost the same to produce but an album of covers will cost a fraction of what an album of new material costs so you should pay accordingly
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I already think that digital downloads have already de valued music, I am always amazed that people gripe about the price of music. I think £10 for an album is cheap as it is without lowering it further. I would happily pay more for a good album that gives me hours upon hours of enjoyment. Music is about a third of the price it was twenty years ago. Hence why concerts have had to quadruple in prices to bring in revenue. As for illegal downloads its theft no different to walking into a shop and stealing. Why should people get something for nothing.
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I honestly think that all genres of music should be the same price, it is daylight robbery when places like HMV charge extra for a new release from groups like Evanescence or Within Temptation by sticking it in their overpriced import section. Yet because an artist / group in the top 40 is classed as more popular, they sell it at a reduced rate. Strange thing is that you can go online and buy near enough whatever type of music you listen to at near enough the same price.
I have no problem in purchasing music, but I refuse to pay the shops asking price. |
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I already think that digital downloads have already de valued music, I am always amazed that people gripe about the price of music. I think £10 for an album is cheap as it is without lowering it further. I would happily pay more for a good album that gives me hours upon hours of enjoyment. Music is about a third of the price it was twenty years ago. Hence why concerts have had to quadruple in prices to bring in revenue. As for illegal downloads its theft no different to walking into a shop and stealing. Why should people get something for nothing.
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so you want a restriction on trade, which is currently illegal?
I'm a law student. I'm sure anyone here who knows about competition law can correct me on this )
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Albums £5? Do you mean Mini-Albums/EP's? Imo when an album gets released it should at least be £10. I think £1 per track is very fair so if there's 10 tracks, £10. I wouldn't pay more than £20 for an album though even if it had 20 tracks, I think between £10 and £16 is pretty fair.
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so you want a restriction on trade, which is currently illegal?
why should some peice of shit music cost the same as a great peice of music? that's pretty much how itunes treats things. few other things in life cost the same regardless of if they are good or bad, so why should music be different? oh and michael jackson.
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Isn't that a form of anti-competitive behaviour? I know competition law in the EU prohibits trade restriction with cartels and stuff and there's something somewhere in Article 101, 102 or 103 of the TFEU or whatever it is. (Yes, I know
I'm a law student. I'm sure anyone here who knows about competition law can correct me on this ) |
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Erh it's not al about a poxy chart show
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I honestly think that all genres of music should be the same price, it is daylight robbery when places like HMV charge extra for a new release from groups like Evanescence or Within Temptation by sticking it in their overpriced import section. Yet because an artist / group in the top 40 is classed as more popular, they sell it at a reduced rate. Strange thing is that you can go online and buy near enough whatever type of music you listen to at near enough the same price.
I have no problem in purchasing music, but I refuse to pay the shops asking price. for new releases and chart titles, record companies will offer deals to retailers so they can sell the titles cheaper, encouraging more sales, in the hope that title will chart highly, preferably number 1. however not every title has a deal thus those without a deal sell for normal price. what you see is the normal price, and the chart/new release is discounted |
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Albums £5? Do you mean Mini-Albums/EP's? Imo when an album gets released it should at least be £10. I think £1 per track is very fair so if there's 10 tracks, £10. I wouldn't pay more than £20 for an album though even if it had 20 tracks, I think between £10 and £16 is pretty fair.
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no, it would be the opposite as everyone would have the same price, so playing on the same field. but it would be a restriction on trade if retailers or suppliers wouldn't be able to set the prices they want
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I got it now. Wouldn't it be a form of price fixing, which is also illegal under Article 101 of the TFEU? Do you know much about competition law?
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First year of release:
Songs: £1.29 albums: £5 After 1 year old songs: 89p albums: £4 or thereabouts. To stop some singles getting increased chart success just because they are cheaper. Make it a fairer market. |
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Who wants to clutter their house up with albums when you can use Spotify?
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that's it. i just know some law, the parts that relate to work past and present
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That's good. I'm a law student so I have to study all this stuff. Competition Law is a fairly big area.
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why should some peice of shit music cost the same as a great peice of music?
![]() Much as I love the sentiment here, I don't think quality has much bearing on the difference in price. Although some incredible but rather fringe music is a hefty price when reissued, often due to the limited runs. Potentially a huge topic, this one. |
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![]() Much as I love the sentiment here, I don't think quality has much bearing on the difference in price. Although some incredible but rather fringe music is a hefty price when reissued, often due to the limited runs. Potentially a huge topic, this one. you must be pretty young if you don't remember bargain bins in record stores, full of the crap that couldn't sell |
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it does when an album doesn't sell and it's consigned to the bargain bin. look at the one from girls aloud who isn't cherly cole and how her solo album was literally given away free by tesco as it couldn't sell
you must be pretty young if you don't remember bargain bins in record stores, full of the crap that couldn't sell I wasn't thinking of pricing in terms of what music it ends up being cleared at at by overstocked retailers, I was thinking in terms of what manufacturers set as their product prices.
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it does when an album doesn't sell and it's consigned to the bargain bin. look at the one from girls aloud who isn't cherly cole and how her solo album was literally given away free by tesco as it couldn't sell
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Pretty young ... nope, not me.
I wasn't thinking of pricing in terms of what music it ends up being cleared at at by overstocked retailers, I was thinking in terms of what manufacturers set as their product prices. |
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Only if your a fan of an artist you buy the album to support them
I'm a law student. I'm sure anyone here who knows about competition law can correct me on this
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oh and michael jackson.

I wasn't thinking of pricing in terms of what music it ends up being cleared at at by overstocked retailers, I was thinking in terms of what manufacturers set as their product prices.