Bought my first iTunes song the other day...

[Mallow]

Originally posted by: tm37
Apparently 15 for a cd is reasonable as millions of americans pay it every day.

Yes, "apparently" your right Just b/c ppl pay it doesn't mean it is reasonable. It is also the reason not many people pay it and the music industry says kazaa is hurting their profits. I think the music industry created this feeding frenzy and they will have to be the ones to difuse it with cheap music supply.

The Texas Attorney General just mailed me a check for $13 after a settlement was reached for a law suit against the music industry for price fixing in the last 80's and early 90's. The music industry execs. are a cancer that is trying to adapt to an anti-angiogenesis agent If that analogy follows.

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Walmart is going to have a similar music service to iTunes.
Singles will cost $.88.

are they going to be edited like the ones they sell in store? that would blow chunks

 

[Paulson]

I download stuff from iTunes all the time with those free pepsi caps... damn right!

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: Paulson
I download stuff from iTunes all the time with those free pepsi caps... damn right!

how often do you get a free song in a pepsi cap? is it like 1 in 2, 3, 4?

 

[Ryan]

Anybody remember when singles DID cost .$99 Many artists still released them at that price (I bought one in 2001), and they usually included 2 to 3 songs/remixes

 

[Sid59]

i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: Sid59
i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

can you look thru the bottle to see if its a winnar?

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog

Originally posted by: Sid59
i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

can you look thru the bottle to see if its a winnar?

Yep. I do it all the time.

 

[Paulson]

I get them from school, I don't even drink pepsi, but I collect them from people who wont use them. So far I've gotten about 55 or so.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog

Originally posted by: Sid59
i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

can you look thru the bottle to see if its a winnar?

Yep. I do it all the time.

yep. that's the whole point. i've dl'ed a total of 8 songs so far. just sit in the store and grab them and stare at them.

 

[Mallow]

How long do you all think pepsi and itunes will let this bottle cap thing go on for?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Mallow
How long do you all think pepsi and itunes will let this bottle cap thing go on for?

only wayt to stop it is ..

- cut the promotion off
- recall all the pepsi caps and redo them.

i don't think they care.

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran

Originally posted by: Dark4ng3l

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Actually I can get them even cheaper

BMG music, buy 1 CD get 11 free, pay only shipping. I'm not sure exactly what the shipping charges are but I am assuming they are going to be less than $5 per CD.

Is this for real? Link?

Sure, it's real.

For any who were curious, I actually signed up and took my 7 initial free CDs last night. They do try to get you on shipping, it was $19 for the 7, but that comes out around $2.70 per CD. And that is for a real physical CD with liner notes and a artwork. If I'm just getting lossy aac files and no physical CD and no liner notes, it has to be significantly cheaper- and it's not, it's MORE expensive. Seems pretty absurd to me.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Mallow
How long do you all think pepsi and itunes will let this bottle cap thing go on for?

Why would they care?

They are still selling Pepsi/Sierra Mist.

And it only helps Apple. It is going to drive people to their music service, which will get people used to buying tracks online, which will only help boost iPod sales.

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog

Originally posted by: Sid59
i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

can you look thru the bottle to see if its a winnar?

Yep. I do it all the time.

yep. that's the whole point. i've dl'ed a total of 8 songs so far. just sit in the store and grab them and stare at them.

is it easier with pepsi or seirra mist or does it matteR?

 

[Mallow]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: Mallow
How long do you all think pepsi and itunes will let this bottle cap thing go on for?

Why would they care?

They are still selling Pepsi/Sierra Mist.

And it only helps Apple. It is going to drive people to their music service, which will get people used to buying tracks online, which will only help boost iPod sales.

Yes they are still selling product but that has nothing to do w/ the bottle caps... I'm pretty sure they sell product every day no matter what. My point is a lot of people are going to buy these products expecting a free song and they will be pissed when some 12 yr old already stole the code thus they might be less likely to buy the product again... get it?...?

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
$.99 is way too much for me. $.15 per song would be fair, and for full albums there should be a discount. $.99 for a full album, for example.

If file sharing disappeared completely right now, I guarantee you would be willing to pay more than 15 cents a song. Of course it doesn't feel like music is worth much when you have thousands of songs on your hard drive that you didn't pay one penny for.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog

Originally posted by: Sid59
i bought 5 pepsi's last night, all winners . .. used 3 of them to "purchase" and replace files that were crappy mp3 from a few years ago.

can you look thru the bottle to see if its a winnar?

Yep. I do it all the time.

yep. that's the whole point. i've dl'ed a total of 8 songs so far. just sit in the store and grab them and stare at them.

is it easier with pepsi or seirra mist or does it matteR?

i've only seen the Pepsi and Diet Pepsi with this offer. not with sierra mist.

just tip the bottle and if you see the word "AGAIN" - it's a bust .. if you see "SONG" - winner!

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

If file sharing disappeared completely right now, I guarantee you would be willing to pay more than 15 cents a song. Of course it doesn't feel like music is worth much when you have thousands of songs on your hard drive that you didn't pay one penny for.

If filesharing "disappeared" I would still be getting REAL CDs from BMG music for net cost of $.20 per track. There is no way $.99 per lossy-encoded track is reasonable when you can get lossless music for less.

Or I might just record off the radio, which is perfectly legal. Sure it's slightly lower quality, but so is aac compared to a CD.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran

Originally posted by: Sureshot324

If file sharing disappeared completely right now, I guarantee you would be willing to pay more than 15 cents a song. Of course it doesn't feel like music is worth much when you have thousands of songs on your hard drive that you didn't pay one penny for.

If filesharing "disappeared" I would still be getting REAL CDs from BMG music for net cost of $.20 per track. There is no way $.99 per lossy-encoded track is reasonable when you can get lossless music for less.

Or I might just record off the radio, which is perfectly legal. Sure it's slightly lower quality, but so is aac compared to a CD.

IMO iTMS isn't good if I want all/most of a disc, but if I only want a song or two than I'll get it off iTMS. If I don't like the band enough to buy the who disc I'm not gonna care that it's compressed audio either. Buying from some place like BMG or Columbia is a good way to get music very cheap. But you have to keep up on it or you get screwed and there selection can be very limited, or flat out worthless, depending on what kind of music you like. I've BMG a couple of times but they don't carry enough bands I like to make it worth my while.

And I'm sure you'll have lots of fun recording stuff off the radio (talk about a royal PITA) at much lower quality than an iTMS AAC file.


Lethal

 

[Mallow]

I think the band limitations of BMG can definitely be a down point. They certainly don't have local bands and bands that are maybe only popular in texas. As for radio recording... I haven't done that since 8th grade and probably won't start back up

 

[Eug]

The RIAA loves you. :heart:

 

[Mallow]

As long as they are suing ppl they will not get my love back :Q