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Originally posted by eXoenDo
Well, downloading a song IS illegal, as CookieRevised said. However, take a look at the inflation.
The way a typical $15.00 should be priced:
$0.80 MAXIMUM per CD
$0.50 MAXIMUM per case (these are very cheap, look at the prices at your local store for CD cases)
$2.00 for the artist for the "Thought in there song"
$2.00 for the recording company and studio time
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$5.30 is the price you must figure a CD should be
Thats very affordable, Plus it will generate more revenue. (More people will buy something cheaper than something expensive). Multiply that and the artist/record company/cd companies/cd case companies get $5,300,000 PER every 1,000,000 Albums Sold.
And where are the printing costs for the booklets and leaflets, and where are the costs for the promo, and where are the costs for the distributers, etc... etc...? And besides all that, all those prices are expenses (the money to buy the raw material, machinery maintenance, etc), not profits; every section of it will charge a small profit of course, otherwise there is no point in doing all work....
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