http://www.last100.com/2009/04/08/more-variable-pricing/ Tracking the digital lifestyle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:33:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.last100.com/2009/04/08/more-variable-pricing/#comment-72083 Download Music Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:03:55 +0000 http://www.last100.com/?p=4100#comment-72083 People complain about a little price hike. It's not fun for anyone, fine, but does anyone remember when online downloads weren't around? You'd buy a full album for $20 because you liked 1 song. You might find there were 3-4 good songs on some albums but a lot of times, only that one radio hit did it for you so you went and spent $20 a song. Now iTunes and all the rest follow and run a variable pricing model on songs which goes as high as $1.29 per tune and everyone is freaking out. Recession? It's $1.29 for a song you get to keep, make copies of, burn, so practically whatever with. Online music downloads are still a fairly new product so you have to give it some time where a lot of changes will take place but still, I think people should relax cause online music download just made buying music so much more affordable, even if iTunes ever decided to go as high as $3 per song, though I could see at some point I'd jump in on the arguing, but we're far from that point. People complain about a little price hike. It's not fun for anyone, fine, but does anyone remember when online downloads weren't around? You'd buy a full album for $20 because you liked 1 song. You might find there were 3-4 good songs on some albums but a lot of times, only that one radio hit did it for you so you went and spent $20 a song. Now iTunes and all the rest follow and run a variable pricing model on songs which goes as high as $1.29 per tune and everyone is freaking out. Recession? It's $1.29 for a song you get to keep, make copies of, burn, so practically whatever with. Online music downloads are still a fairly new product so you have to give it some time where a lot of changes will take place but still, I think people should relax cause online music download just made buying music so much more affordable, even if iTunes ever decided to go as high as $3 per song, though I could see at some point I'd jump in on the arguing, but we're far from that point.

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