Music Industry makes Smart Move, Shock! | Thread profile

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...ogy+NewsNew s-3 They actually do the smart and very obvious thing for once. It looks like the tides are finally turning. Basically Universal is going to sell CDs in a delux edition with all kinds of goodies, a medium edition and a cheap-ass edition in a paper sleeve. It's also interesting to note that they expect 25% of their sales to be online in the next ...

You have a range from 10-15-20 euros and I expect everybody to just buy the 10 euro ones. I don't think this will be good for bands.

Unless they price their deluxe versions for no more than the price of current CDs, I'm not interested. It's just 40-50 mins of semi-random waveforms, it's not WORTH MORE, no matter how much extra shit they throw in there.

OK, so let me get this straight... Quote: The middle tier of Universal's CDs will be sold in a new "super jewel box" designed to be stronger and more durable than the standard jewel box. Universal Music plans to absorb the extra manufacturing costs, estimated to be about 3 to 5 euro cents per unit. Although it does not set retail prices, Universal Music expects the deluxe CDs to sell for an ...

To the music industry: suck my balls, you won't see any money from me for the new CD's costing 15 and up. I order my (original) CD's from SIngapore for $9 and if that ceases, I'll stop bying them alltogether. The artist get but a fraction of the money anyway, that won't change much anyway. They get ripped off just like we do.

Market segmentation comes to the music industry. Who would have thought?

The pricing may be BS, but I think the segmetation idea is the intelligent part. Heck, even in China legit box/collector sets sell pretty good because of all the extras.

Quote: Originally Posted by DudeMiester The pricing may be BS, but I think the segmetation idea is the intelligent part. Heck, even in China legit box/collector sets sell pretty good because of all the extras. I agree with both points. Segmentation should make the market more diverse. epic

I just want more and more 5.1 surround discs.

$10 for a standard CD like you mostly find on the market today. I see no reason not to do so, record companies make far to much off of the discs already, while the actual artist get basically nothing. I'd like to see $10 standard discs, and ~$18 bundel that includes extras like unreleased tracks or possibly a making of.