Yea, well. It's been a while (three days....woooot) since I last wrote anything for you to read. You being the countless amounts of people who check out my website every day. Well, that may not be true, but it would be if the open source database would submit my site to their "very selective database where only the best of the best get submitted".
So, now that the fact that my site will never be listed on even as crappy a search engine as "alltheweb", I'll tell you my current thoughts.
If all of these people who sell their songs actually wanted everyone to buy their cd's, why are they so overpriced. I mean, seriously, the disc costs 6 cents to the average consumer, the ink per disc maybe 50 cents, and the case, booklet, and other randomly placed and equally useless things cost a total of MAYBE 50 cents...so, the total cost to make the cd is about a dollar six. Maybe less because of mass production. So, lets just put it at 80 cents.
So, at the going rate for most items, the most you normally would charge for something is three times the price it cost to make it. Well, obviously, the record industry didn't get this memo because the avergae cd is priced at about 12 bucks...thats 15 times the price they made them for.
So, logically, who's the one being cut out on money? The record label, or the consumer?
