Wow thanks for this info... idiocy of some people and yeah I remember Sony's debacle. ... Sign me up PC I think I have spent the better part of over 50,000.00 dollars over the years buying a LP album, A tape or a CD just to get 2 - 4 good songs per album.
I recently started buying my music just 1 song at a time off I-Tunes, until Nicklebacks Dark Horse CD. I actually bought the whole album. It cost me 8 dollars off I-tunes with a discount coupon from redflag deals. A total bargain, but thats only cause every single song on it is phenomenal, however, I am a large Nickleback fan so am a little biased about that...
Now lets travel back in time to1983 when I bought my first LP
Ozzy's tape bark at the moon (83) that album must of driven my Mum insane because that album was great, I listened to it time and time and time again. I sang it word for word riding a skate board to and from school with a big ole new york style 6 D battery Ghetto blaster.
If I was lucky I got 18 hr's of tape play and 5-8 days of radio listening time on it. Thank God for the Walkman's release a couple of years later but I digress back to music.
Lets not forget Ozzy's lesser known album from 88 no rest for the wicked, and a rather good album from 86 entitled the ultimate sin. to me these were worth the 15 dollar to 20 dollars paid for each one. but again I bought those albums for 2 maybe 3 songs per album, and the truth is thousand upon hundreds of thousands of people the world over bought those albums for the same reason you had top buy the whole thing to buy just the few songs you liked.
Now not all of my friends agreed those albums were good, they were not large Ozzy fans like myself, they liked bands like the cure, the cult, depechmode with the exception of Motely Crue's Dr Feel Good album I was not to much of a fan of those other bands. I mean it was all right but it was not worth the 20 dollars they wanted from us to buy it at that time.
It was no where near as good as Megadeth's album peace sells but who's buying or the best album of there's titled killing is my business and business is good. again those albums sold for over 15 dollars each and were bought for only 2 or 3 songs on each one.
Lets call it 25 albums per year & at almost 15 to 20 dollars each that adds up multiply that by lets say 25 years. At approximately 2000 dollars per year in albums bought that = 50 thousand dollars oper 25 years OMG talk about being robbed.
Divided by the songs that were actually being bought to be listened to in just a one year period. Lets say 4 songs per album, lets call it 90 songs total per year that works out to be 22 dollars per song
At least today I now have the option to buy just 1 song from a album. at the low cost of 25 cents to the high cost of 2 dollars per song. If I could have a refund for all the extra money i spent on fluff and garbage it would be nice.
