Apple lowering prices on iTMS?
I went to check out the Green Day cover of I fought the law and looked around their iTMS page and found that a couple of their albums are now $7.99. Now I know that if an album has less then 10 songs Apple likes to have the album priced below $9.99, but Dookie has 15 songs, but is only $7.99. Could the competition from Craptser and Music Match be working and forcing Apple to start competing on price? Have you seen any other albums that are 10+ songs but less then $9.99?
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I swear they're adding stuff to the store that isn't showing up on the "Just added" list either. I've found a couple of things recently I either missed on that list, that weren't pu on the list, or they were added more recently than last Tuesday.
Who knows? In the end it could be just what you said: competition.
Expect it to drop to $3.99 by May.
"Dookie" indeed.
[ducks]
Apple's involvement stops at the price guidelines: They'd really, really like everyone to charge $9.99 or $.99 times the number of songs, whichever is lower, but as with their original insistence that only full albums can be offered, they've proven flexible.
Particularly large and powerful acts, or acts with particularly large or powerful agents, might also place a significant influence on the price.
Originally posted by tonton
Well, at least Dookie is not "hookless, pretentious crap" .
Hey, I have standards and I know what I like. Somewhere between Green Day's knowledge of two chords and ELP's use of 11,000 of them in a lumbering 18-minute "masterpiece", lies an area I'm comfortable in.
Just ask Mr. Petty.
I still thought it was a good price, though.
I hope they do more of those.
I got an e-mailed iTMS certificate for my birthday and I've pretty much burned through it already!
I've seen the most popular albums sell for more than $10 since day one. They've also apparently come to some consensus on when a track is too long to cost $99. Problem with it is that instead of charging more for a 10 minute son, you can only buy them with the album. I realize they're avoiding looking like BuyMusic and Napster which talk about cheaper tracks but have a lot more expensive ones too, but maybe some system should be set up for those amazing 20 minute Butthole Surfer jams.