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> I remember when CD's came out and started to displace vinyl. We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $
by shiroiuma 3y ago
> I remember when CD's came out and started to displace vinyl. We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $8 or so at the time, CD's double that. Yeah, no, that never happened.
What are you talking about? CDs today are about $16 on Amazon. If they were $16 back in the 1980s, that's pretty remarkable, because inflation should make them much, more more now. CDs really have come down in price.
- nerdponx 3y agoThey used to be $20 at Borders in the early 00s, so they got more expensive in nominal terms for a while. I remember the early days of the iTunes store, buying whole albums for $10 felt like a great deal.
- shiroiuma 3y agoI'm guessing that the rise of streaming music has probably pushed their price down finally.
- croes 3y agoBut the production costs fell much more