VirtualLarry
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- Aug 25, 2001
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Well, I was talking years ago, but you're incorrect about CD prices falling, they have very clearly risen.Originally posted by: Slickone
And I'm not sure where VirtualLarry was getting new CD's for $6e, but new CD prices have actually fallen over the past 10 years. They used to all be $15-$18e, now they're usually around $12-$14. You can get many brand new CD's for $9.99 for the first week they come out. Some of the lower price has to do with the price fixing lawsuit(s) not too long ago; Also the fact that the technology is getting old. And of course the MP3 craze.
Most used to be in the $6 (bargain-bin) to $12 (new release) range, back then. If you were in the northeast, there was a dept.-store change called "Lechmere's", that used to have decent prices on music. $15-$18 is where most new-releases started selling for during the price-fixing, and the "new, lower prices!" are an attempt to prove that they weren't, or that they cut some deals with record stores or something.
I agree that used prices have gone up, ridiculously so, both for video-games and music. Go to E.B., they want merely $2 less for the used copy of the same game as compared to new, if it's a recent release. Sometimes you can find the older bargain-bin titles selling for less new than you can used. (I understand why that happens, but it's still a bit funny to see.)Originally posted by: SlickoneSo while new CD prices have fallen, used CD prices have risen and are even closer to the price of a new CD. I used to go to used CD stores all the time but rarely do anymore.
Except that there aren't LP or EP CDs, they're just.. CDs. They only have one play speed and one max length, according to redbook standards. So I did assume that he was talking about vinyl. I grew up in the in-between generation, the era of audio cassettes. Easily duplicated, but they sounded like crap after a few years. I doubt many of them survived. I always considered an 'album' to simply be a collection of songs, although it does sound wierd to be talking about an 'album' when referring to a cassette tape.Originally posted by: Slickone
Oh, and LP means a Long Playing (full length) album, though generally people use it to mean a vinyl record. Just as EP means Extended Play. Some mistakenly use the word 'album' to just mean vinyl.
I have a feeling that the next formats may well be totally solid-state, both for security (DRM) as well as power-saving (for portable players) and convenience (small size, possibly re-recordable). The only thing preventing it still, is price. CDs cost so little to make, compared to most packaged and tested chips.