Knute, a CD should NOT I repeat NOT cost less than $12.99, unless the record company and artist WANT IT TO. The reason is COMPARABLE PRICE, which you can read about on my post here or here .

Knute, a Newsweek report @ MSNBC has reported that since April, 360,000 people have bought a RINGTONE from a song by Sean Paul for $2.00 apiece. That SONG RINGTONES are a 94 Million dollar business this year. This points out the hypocrisy of file-'sharers' and 'all-you-can-eat'ers saying that RECORD PRICES ARE UNREASONABLE. 15 seconds of a beep-bleep EVISCERATION of an entire song has people cr@pping themselves to hand over 2 bucks to a PHONE COMPANY? Methinks the 'fair price' whine smells like age-old red herring.

On-demand repeatability, portability, sell-on value are why CDs and downloads are a good deal at $1/cut.

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