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Originally Posted by Tomkat
Why did they lower their prices, do you think...? :economics:
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The lowering of album prices had been going on for some years before that. I bought The Holy Bible in 1999 (which was around the time of the launch of Napster, but I doubt the music industry was preemptively responding to something it obviously hadn't considered) for the princely sum of £7.99, RRP. Outlets like Amazon will also have contributed to a lowering in prices, independent of the effect of downloading music.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
What does TOTP have to do with it? MTV etc are still going strong, and they only show/play singles.
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A lot of the music on the channels you go on to quote are no longer available as shop-bought singles, especially VH1 Classic.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
What do they want? Free access to music? The simple facts are that it costs money to make music - by CDs, studio time, equipment, marketing, wages, etc. It can't be completely free. There needs to be a compromise where a nominal amount is paid for music to keep artists creating it - getting it completely free goes against this.
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If only someone had made a list of services oink provided that weren't supplied by regular outlets, although obviously preferrably that list should be made out of things I had said so it's not like I'm plucking things out of the aether.