Hot iTunes to Get Pricey?
Sarah Perez on September 2nd, 2005
Steven Jobs may have revolutionized the music industry with the advent of iTunes,and now he is fighting for iTunes to remain the way it should be: 99 cents per song. Period. However, a couple of the record companies have gotten greedy (surprise, surprise), and they want a new pricing structure. Jobs is battling with at least two of the four major record companies over the price of songs. At stake is the one-price model that iTunes has adopted. It could be replaced with a more complex structure that prices songs by how popular they are. A hot new single could potentially sell for $1.49, while an older song could go for substantially less than 99 cents. YIKES! No way I’m paying $1.50 for ONE SONG! I hope he wins!
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I wish too. 1.50 for a song? That’s too much. But then I get my songs from LimeWire. LOL.
Dr. Fil
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$1.50 is way too much. I wasn’t thrilled with $0.99 either. Isn’t even $0.69 pushing it? If you’re ever strapped for cash, you can always record songs off the radio for free.
Stupid record labels. There is finally a decent structure in place to make positive financial use of the web for music and those greedy bastardos want to go and mess it up.
If it goes to 1.50, I feel that people will quit their pursuit of legitimate music and go back to P2P.
As I don’t have an iPod, I use Napster, since I can transfer songs I buy right to my Nomad. As a former P2P user, I am totally fine paying 99 cents for a track I want. If I buy a whole album, the per-track price often winds up being less, anyway.
But a buck forty-nine for one song? Leave it to the stupid record labels to ruin a good thing for everyone. You’re exactly right - they’re greedy bastards.