RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg

Bruha writes "It appears the RIAA is being very low key about the fact that the five major labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song. I was a huge fan of the 99c per song, but if they think that they can raise the price on me just because I don't buy full CDs anymore, they've got another thing coming. Suggestion: make good CDs, and maybe I'll buy the whole thing."

how nice of them.

[ReeferCpe]

Nice.. /me opens kazaa

Definitions from the future:

[BandwidthHog]

Record company execs: A bunch of greedy fucking bastards who were among the first against the wall when the revolution came.

What's the big problem?

[MongooseCN]

This is a capitalist country! If you don't like one company's price, go to another company and buy their product instead! So if you don't like the RIAA's prices then go to... uh... hmmm... fuck.

Re:Good for the RIAA. This is capitalism at work.

[Anonymous Coward]

Capitalism doesn't take away our right to whine and bitch. And this move, if true, deserves some whining and bitching.

Re:And if it's 10 bucks a song - so what?

[SuperMo0]

I'm not poor, but I have much better things to spend 10 dollars on than whatever Britney Spears has moaned out recently.

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[Anonymous Coward]

the worst deal i've found on itunes has been .99 for a 4 second interlude track (janet jackson, i think

Thanks God, It could be much worse: imagine 3 minutes of Janet Jackson ... Brrr!

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[Robmonster]

I havent used iTunes myself, but I would have expected then to make allowances for track length....

Mind you, that leaves Meatloaf fans open to having to pay $10 per track since his songs are so long...

Do you get to see the track length before downloading the file?

Re:Interesting, yes; but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't the mods read slashdot anymore?

Sorry, too busy modding.

Gonna Outsource Those Assholes to India

[Greyfox]

I bet there are a bunch of Indian artists who will sell me music tracks for .50 a track. Stick THAT in your crack pipe and smoke it, RIAA!

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[TedCheshireAcad]

And I bet he didn't even get to see a tit.

Re:These guys...

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Perhaps their bussiness plan is this:

1)Announce possible big price increase.
2)People quickly buy more music before the increase.
3)profit!
4)Occasionaly remind people of possible price increase.
5)goto 2

Re:They are killing themselves slowly

[joFFeman]

killing me softly with his song?

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[MKalus]

The receiver would be equipped with a long-term correlator that would basically say, "If I've heard this segment of audio within the last 24 hours, don't record it."

So this means you get five songs each day? Every day? In what way would that be better than radio itself (well, minus the fact that you get rid of those stupid DJs.

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[AndroidCat]

Doesn't someone own the copyright to silence? :^P

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure, but Simon and Garfunkel have the sound of it locked down. :-)

Re:Copyright on silence

[guiscard]

I also like the quote:

"Mine is a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds."

Re:Gonna Outsource Those Assholes to India

[wheresdrew]

They already have!

You mean you haven't been stocking up on Dahler Mendi CDs?

http://omgwtf.superlime.com/tunak.rm

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[JoeBaldwin]

Translation: If you're enough of a moron to buy 99 cents worth of fuck all, you got what you paid for you cretinous pillock.

Or in nicer terms, "white space != good investment" :)

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[Anonymous Coward]

Making a large number of copies of my wife would be the equivelent and releasing the plague on the earth. I would think twice...

But this is a horrible example of reductionism. I could care less if you gangbanged a copy of my wife. As long as you aren't gangbanging the real thing (at least without paying me).

Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit

[Anonymous Coward]

Kill him with extreme irony: use a silencer.

Re:Mixing the good and the bad.

[crashfrog]

Why do people listen to songs from a band that can only turn out "3 or 4 good tracks", when you could buy an alblum from a good band and get an entire CDs worth of good music?

You might as well ask "why would you eat at the Chinese place that only has 3 or 4 good dishes when you could eat at the Mexican place that has a menu's worth of good dishes?"

Well, duh. Because I like Chinese better than I like Mexican (or whatever.) You listen to those 3 or 4 good songs because you like them better than that other band's entire album.

Maybe you should try looking at sources other than MTV for what you want to listen to.

Maybe that's too much fuckin' work. Not everybody has the time to make sure their taste is up to your discriminating standards, Mr. Culture Police.

Re:Didn't go to trial, so...

[Kiryat Malachi]

Everyone's heard his music.

I mean, 4'33"... who hasn't heard that? ;)