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Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams

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Re: Hmmm...

Taking inflation into consideration we should be paying at least £20 a CD, this is the real reason that the music industry is in so much trouble

Given falling costs of production and distribution (even for CD) I'm not too sure that your argument works completely - the artist only ever got a tiny fraction of the revenues from vinyl, with most revenue hogged by the big bands, or wasted by the dreadful inefficient manufacturing, distribution and promotion efforts, or simply the sprawling excess of big music companies.

There's another thing to consider, and that is back in the day you had to pay for all of an album, even if you only really wanted one or two songs. The industry was coining it in selling many albums half full of filler tracks. There's a tiny number where every song is a gem, those are few and far between. I suspect that's the big problem for most bands - on track-by-track digital services, people can and do avoid the less inspiring content.

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