MP3 vs CD price

BroKen_H

Re-member
Saw a new marketing thing today when looking at new music. Noticed that a lot of new music is coming out with $8.99 CD or $11.99/12.99 MP3 or $1.29 per song. AFA Amazon Prime goes, 2 day shipping makes it well worthwhile to get the CD. Seems like a good way to promote CD sales if it works...
 
People would spend more for an MP3 album than a physical CD. Stupid is ... as stupid does....

Amazon stopped their Createspace MP3 service - CD-Rs only through them now.
 
Saw a new marketing thing today when looking at new music. Noticed that a lot of new music is coming out with $8.99 CD or $11.99/12.99 MP3 or $1.29 per song. AFA Amazon Prime goes, 2 day shipping makes it well worthwhile to get the CD. Seems like a good way to promote CD sales if it works...

A lot of the newer CDs, and many older releases as well, come with a free MP3 download too. So $8.99 (or whatever the CD cost) and you get the MP3s immediately while you wait for the disc you may or may not even feel you need/want by time it arrives.
 
I think there's no point in putting there psychological pricing (the .99 thing), that just looks like ugly supermarket price. You're not a supermarket, save those prices for mainstream music stores.

I tell this because I tend to upload my music on Bandcamp and the Bandcamp staff just hates that. Also, there are no rules given to the pricing of albums or tracks, given to the possibility of name-your-price pricing. There's also the fact of people not liking to accumulate far from too many pennies even in their bank accounts because having like $6.37 in your bank account is not really having in mind $7. The pennies are always useless.
 
Let me get this straight. I'm not a supermarket...damn, so much for my self image.
Bandcamp staff hates it when people upload music on Bandcamp...what exactly do they want us to do with their site?
So 6.37 in the bank is better than $7 in the mind...Ben Franklin Jr, Jr, Jr.
A penny saved is completely useless. Oh, never mind. No relation to BF.
 
As an aside - on our website people can download individual tracks, or the complete thing. One person bought the complete thing, and then complained that when she then downloaded the individual tracks, they were the same! On one of them, there are twenty tracks for one pound each, or the complete thing for 15 pounds. Loads of people download the individual tracks and only pick 16 or 17???
 
We still sell more CDs than complete downloads on our fairly specialist stuff. Our downloads are individual tracks, and we suspect they are just done for speed and convenience when needed, where as CDs are speculative stuff with the future in mind, not immediate need. Nobody is ever interested in the CD for quality. Much of our music is for dance purposes, and we run many productions where our sort of music is used to dance to, and the quality of music people provide is crazily bad. Some have CDs, others mp3s on a stick, while others might have a CD but recorded from a worn out cassette. They hear music, not quality. I wonder if the mp3 v CD quality debate is only something recordists worry about and the general public don't even notice?
 
Are people really buying many CDs anymore?

I buy CDs from my favorite artists to support them (I go to their shows, too). I've never paid for a download, but have got free d/l's when I buy a CD. But I've gone from buying 50-100 CDs a year to 5-10.

But current music listeners (millenials) are listening on phones/earbuds/car systems and can't hear the quality difference of their streaming.
 
I buy CDs from my favorite artists to support them... I've never paid for a download, but have got free d/l's when I buy a CD. But I've gone from buying 50-100 CDs a year to 5-10.

Same here. I rarely even listen to my FLAC rips. MP3s are just more convenient.
 
There's a glut, a point at which you have the music you like and a lot of it, where you just start slowing down. For most it's hit in the early twenties, but for musicians and music enthusiasts it may go quite a bit longer. We slow down our purchases extensively (as has been noted above). That's why most popular music is based on 12-20 y/o people's purchases.
 
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