RIAA suing a little 12 year old girl!!!

**** that, i owe them 30,000 already i guess

[Titan]

How much do they sue per song? I hear reports ranging from 10 grand to 250grand.

[Living-In-Clip]

Here\'s one.

I love \'A Perfect Circle\' and I was dyin\' to hear the remix of their new song \'Weak and Powerless\' that is on the Underworld soundtrack. What did I do? I bought the soundtrack. Why? Because I\'m not a thief. Guess what? I hate most the songs, but I found two other songs that I liked. Oh No!

So, please take that bullshit about "cd\'s being to expensive" and most "songs are crap" stuff elsewhere.

[GmanJoe]

We do. We go to Kazaa, gnutella, WinMX and the like.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
So, please take that bullshit about "cd\'s being to expensive" and most "songs are crap" stuff elsewhere.

The Underworld soundtrack is $14.99 on Amazon.com.  At 19 tracks, that is $.79 per track, and it\'s a good value assuming all the tracks are complete songs.  Whether they\'re all good or not is beside the point in my opinion.  You take your chances, and if an artist\'s album is not consistent enough, you won\'t buy their next one.  

My complaint is with CDs like the Evanescence "Fallen" CD, which is $13.49 for 11 tracks, or $1.22 per track.  You may say I\'m splitting hairs, but the fact is that I do still pay for CDs from artists that I really know I\'ll like.  HOWEVER, I no longer take chances on purchasing CDs from artists I\'m not sure about.  If all popular music CDs were priced around $.79 per track, that Evanescence CD would have been $8.69, and I probably would have bought it.  

There is an acceptable price point, and then there is gouging.  It may be bullshit to you, but not to everyone.

BTW, you\'re ruining the experience by listening to the soundtrack before the movie comes out.  

[SirMystiq]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Here\'s one.

I love \'A Perfect Circle\' and I was dyin\' to hear the remix of their new song \'Weak and Powerless\' that is on the Underworld soundtrack. What did I do? I bought the soundtrack. Why? Because I\'m not a thief. Guess what? I hate most the songs, but I found two other songs that I liked. Oh No!

So, please take that bullshit about "cd\'s being to expensive" and most "songs are crap" stuff elsewhere.

HA...well most of us aren\'t rich enough to be able to buy CD\'s everytime we hear a good song, and just buy it for that new song. Some of us have a dog to fee, a car to gas, and a girlfriend.......

It might not seem much but at 16 all that cuts my budget down to 5 dollars...

Originally posted by Coredweller
The Underworld soundtrack is $14.99 on Amazon.com.  At 19 tracks, that is $.79 per track, and it\'s a good value assuming all the tracks are complete songs.  Whether they\'re all good or not is beside the point in my opinion.  You take your chances, and if an artist\'s album is not consistent enough, you won\'t buy their next one.  

My complaint is with CDs like the Evanescence "Fallen" CD, which is $13.49 for 11 tracks, or $1.22 per track.  You may say I\'m splitting hairs, but the fact is that I do still pay for CDs from artists that I really know I\'ll like.  HOWEVER, I no longer take chances on purchasing CDs from artists I\'m not sure about.  If all popular music CDs were priced around $.79 per track, that Evanescence CD would have been $8.69, and I probably would have bought it.  

There is an acceptable price point, and then there is gouging.  It may be bullshit to you, but not to everyone.

Unfortunately you can\'t go by how many tracks are on a CD to determine the price.  I have CD\'s with 7 songs that is the same length as a CD with 16 (a few of the tracks being only 30 seconds long).  Besides the record label could just cut corners and have the artists add interludes and such to even out the pricing.

Yes, I skipped the digression of stating that you can\'t follow a mathematical formula for these prices.  Otherwise, one of my favorite Yes albums, "Close to the Edge" would cost $2.37 because it contains 3 tracks.  That is obvious, so I didn\'t think it was worth mentioning.

Why not base it on total CD running time, for tracks that actually contain signal.  There is a way to do it intelligently.

MY POINT IS ... CDs are too expensive.  Otay.

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Coredweller
BTW, you\'re ruining the experience by listening to the soundtrack before the movie comes out.  

I figure the movie will suck .

Originally posted by SirMystiq
HA...well most of us aren\'t rich enough to be able to buy CD\'s everytime we hear a good song, and just buy it for that new song. Some of us have a dog to fee, a car to gas, and a girlfriend.......

It might not seem much but at 16 all that cuts my budget down to 5 dollars...

Three words:

Get A Job.

downloading one good song > paying 16$ for a cd with one good song and 10 shitty ones

[Bobs_Hardware]

I can\'t remember the last time a band put out one good song, and the rest were shit..

walk into a cd store sometime

90% of the product are like this

[Bobs_Hardware]

No, 90% of the products have no good songs at all.

Hot hot heat\'s last album had 1, possibly 2 good songs.

The cranberries have lots of albums that have 0 or 1 good song (mixed in with their good ones).

Metallica, the Offspring (now), the White Stripes.... they\'re all in the same boat.

The fact is that with a few notable exceptions, most groups release a lot of filler with their music.