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Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month, more than I have ever bought in my life. And th

Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month, more than I have ever bought in my life. And they don't even have to spend any money to burn and distribute them. So they're already making more money than they would otherwise. The only issue is that the money isn't going to those who actually deserve it. Don't encourage these greedy jackals to charge even more.

robert_dipaolo 3y ago
They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free. However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.
- beeboobaa 3y ago
  They're not free, but they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the cost to distribute tons of CDs all over the world taking up loads of shelf space world-wide.
klelatti 3y ago
And the value being delivered to you is a huge amount more than you got with 1-2 CDs a month. But you’re not prepared to pay more for that value?
- beeboobaa 3y ago
  Nope. My value to my employer has also gone up tremendously thanks to technology but I'm not seeing an exponentially increased paycheck, nor are most people. Technology exists to make everyone's life's better, not to make you richer.
sokoloff 3y ago
It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists. Artists rarely got more than 10%.
- troupo 3y ago
  > It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists What "different jackals". It's the same jackals who are getting the lion's share: the labels.
ghaff 3y ago
Younger people buying one or two albums per month used to be extremely common. And distribution of media generally (also in the case of books) is a much smaller percentage of the costs than most people assume.
paulcole 3y ago
> Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month How is that possible? A new CD is around $14 and Spotify is like $12.

robert_dipaolo 3y ago

They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free. However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.

beeboobaa 3y ago
They're not free, but they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the cost to distribute tons of CDs all over the world taking up loads of shelf space world-wide.

klelatti 3y ago

And the value being delivered to you is a huge amount more than you got with 1-2 CDs a month. But you’re not prepared to pay more for that value?

beeboobaa 3y ago
Nope. My value to my employer has also gone up tremendously thanks to technology but I'm not seeing an exponentially increased paycheck, nor are most people. Technology exists to make everyone's life's better, not to make you richer.

sokoloff 3y ago

It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists. Artists rarely got more than 10%.

troupo 3y ago
> It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists What "different jackals". It's the same jackals who are getting the lion's share: the labels.

ghaff 3y ago

Younger people buying one or two albums per month used to be extremely common. And distribution of media generally (also in the case of books) is a much smaller percentage of the costs than most people assume.

paulcole 3y ago

> Nonsense, if they divided my monthly payment by hours listened they'd get about 1-2 CDs out of that every month How is that possible? A new CD is around $14 and Spotify is like $12.