Posts by Stephenbw

Thanks for the inflation calculator, it is very interesting to see that $3.99 in 1967 = $25.46 in 2008. Even more interesting is that in the UK £3.99 in 1967 is a staggering £54.76 today. So paying £8.98 for a new cd is even more of a...

Quote: Originally Posted by OC4Theo Why does everything about an Apple product always has some kind of mystery. All these newspapers, magazines, analysts, rumor mills, and dick and harry, everyone claim to hear from unnamed...

Quote: Originally Posted by mazzy I think it should be up to the artist & label whether they wish to sell their "product" on a per song or per album basis. Yes there are some releases that should be a full album intact in...

Quote: Originally Posted by mazzy Does Tubular Bells Part One cost .99 on iTunes? And it's only half of a song! it is 26 minutes long so is an 'Album Only' track. And on that note I'm off to bed

Quote: Originally Posted by Trajectory When was the last time you bought a single song from an album and, upon listening to it, the song made no sense at all because you couldn't hear it in context with the other tracks? I always buy...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I would be very curious as to what exactly is meant by "album" there. When I was involved with the industry, as recently as 5 years ago, there was no more than a very small fraction of that...

Quote: Originally Posted by alansky Don't see this plan working unless the music labels also stop padding cd's with lousy tracks that nobody wants to hear. They've been getting away with murder for decades and, from this angle, are...

Quote: Originally Posted by Trajectory Now that iTunes has brought back the ability to pick and choose songs, it seems the record companies are intent on repeating history and, as usual, ignoring what customers want. iTunes hasn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by MissionGrey I think your numbers are a bit off. About 1000 albums were released in 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...leased_in_2008 Which still mean 100 full albums worth buying. And that would...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Could you provide a link for those numbers? This is a list of albums released in the USA during 2009 by month. There is also a list for Great Britain. As you can see, the numbers are far...