What Would It Take To Make You Buy The Cd?

[arildho]

Hi everyone!

I assume most of the participants in this forum download music files from one p2p network or another.

What would it take for you to go out and buy the CD instead of just downloading the music?

I don't care about the legal aspects of it all, I'm just interested in the advantages and disadvantages of mp3 and original CDs as formats.

Would more extra features on a CD, like bonus DVDs etc, make you prefer the CD? Or are there other features not yet introduced that would me more desirable?

Finally, do you think mp3s or some other fully-digital music format (i.e. no physical product) will replace CDs totally? If so, when will this happen?

I'm interested in hearing your opinions.

Arildho

[Adster]

drop the price form 30 bucks to 2 bucks ;)

[Celerystalksme]

Just a drop in prices while continuing the same quality...thats all i ask for :)

[jay973]

Ive gotta agree,its the price with me also.

[BigBank_Hank]

I also have to agree with dropping the price. I do still buy CD's of my favorite artists. Metallica's St. Anger is the last album that I bought because of the DVD and the lyric book that came with it. The other cool thing that came with the CD was a password to the Metallica vault so that you could download live versions of songs from concerts.

[Arm]

Drop the price

Make a cd that has (mostly) all good songs and no filler crap

Add extras like artist commentary n' shit.

One of those options would make me buy a cd.

[Skweeky]

I only buy CD's if they're from a beginning good group. I'd never buy a cd from artists like Madonna or Metalicca

[CrumbCat]

Lower The Price ! ! !

Stop selling music at such an obscene mark up.
It costs less than a dollar to press a disc. When CDs were new, they cost twice as much as LPs and cassettes. The industry claimed that the cost to produce this new format was high, and promised that as their costs came down, so would retail prices. This price drop never occurred. In stores where vinyl records and cassettes are still sold, they are priced lower than CDs, even though they cost more to manufacture. A movie on DVD frequently sells for less than its soundtrack on CD. The industry has colluded to fix prices, and they continue to skyrocket. In many US markets, CDs cost twenty dollars. In many countries, CDs cost even more. For example in Iceland, a CD can cost 2500kr, equal to 29.50 in US dollars. This is unacceptable.

Tchau!

[mogadishu]

definitely lower the price.. and of course better music.

[djflypson]

And lower the price AND more for the artist !

I buy a CD if i can't find it on vinyl, mp3's only makes me buy more ...

Unfortunatly its not only the record industry that try to sell things for too much money, not to say absurd and insulting. People try to change things (and spank billy gaty) if they can, i hope you do too Arildho; and you are working for who or what now ?

grtx <_<

[Suicyco247]

Didn&#39;t the recording industry already lose a case over price fixing a while back?

Rather than give consumers ANY incentive to buy a new cd, including many of the ideas mentioned here, they would rather furthur alienate music fans by trying to sue us into submission. By making this a war against music lovers(the reason we download music in the first place) they are only hurting the industry, and the artists, even more.

Personally, I&#39;m sick of the corporate fat-cats screwing us for years because we had no other choice, and now suing us after cutting their own throats. It&#39;s not about the artists, it&#39;s about the big wigs lining there own pockets and refusing to come up with original ideas to lure us back into music stores. If it&#39;s a war they want, it&#39;s a war they&#39;ll get and every song you download is a shot at RIAA. :angry:

[Rocktron]

NOTHING makes me buy any cd&#33;

Just want the original if i like it enough..

[blkwolf21]

Lower Price
I would buy a CD if it was 8 bucks, not 15-20

[imported_el-producto]

i always buy cds because kazaa dont got all my underground needs

[blkwolf21]

Originally posted by arildho@12 August 2003 - 13:11


Finally, do you think mp3s or some other fully-digital music format (i.e. no physical product) will replace CDs totally? If so, when will this happen?


maybe. maybe not. but the digital music aspect will grow a whole lot in the next years over CD&#39;s, i can tell you that

it&#39;ll be awhile though before MP3&#39;s are gonna replace remixing vinyls on a turntable at the club :)

[chalkmongoose]

I doubt whether I&#39;d be bothered to buy a CD. The music I listen to (Beethoven, Little Richard, Allen Sherman) is just as good off of Piolet.

[neil1967]

looks like you&#39;ve got a pretty conclusive answer, drop the bloody price, with which
i fully agree. i also think that the music industry(becoming more like a global entertainment industry every day, covering everything from tv,movies,technology,in fact all kinds of media) are just catering to the lowest common denominator, they just dont seem interested in anyone over the age of twenty five. im 36 and very seldom do i buy cds because there&#39;s nothing of interest
to me. the only music they seem to want me to buy is the back catalogue of the artistes iv&#39;e already bought years ago( buy them again on cd) Fu8k off iv&#39;e paid once.the sorriest thing i&#39;ve heard in a long time is that mobile phone ring tones are about to overtake the sales of cd singles(wtf&#33;) so even most of record buying public
are not happy with the crap they&#39;re being fed. &#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036;&#036; and relax.

[sparsely]

Originally posted by Rocktron
NOTHING makes me buy any cd&#33;

Just want the original if i like it enough..

My method exactly.