When I was starting to buy music on a regular basis as a teen... I started to see the prices climb higher and higher. $10-$12 wasnt too bad... but when titles were $15-$20.. that was the last time Id buy regularly.
Today, you can get a DVD for $7 with a decent movie... yet you cant get a decent CD
for that! How pathetic is that overpricing? A DVD holds 10x the data, and is much more
entertaining.
Not only that... but the Record companies have been reducing the sound
quality with horrific levels of digital compression. Its made the music sound flat,
undetailed, and it even distorts in spots! Why did they do this? To make the cds
sound louder! I will NEVER pay for music again because of this downgrade in quality.
Even many compressed Mp3s I have sound better than some of the latests cds!
Pretty funny, that people who bought the new Metallica Cd, found that the
Guitar Hero tracks sounded 50x better than their overpriced cds!
Even in my teens.. when CDs were first coming into heavy popularity... They started
to change over from AAD, to ADD... and finally to complete Digital DDD. They said that
DDD was supposed to be the best... and yet my AAD cd was easily noticbly better
by MILES! The pure DDD was again, Flat, distorted, awful. And I was far from being called an Audiofile! I was horrified back then... but thought that maybe things would get better. Boy was I wrong!
Not only that... but after sound quality left... shortly after came the cookie cutter
formula. No more use of synths to create original sounds in music. Heck, even
typical instrumentation became all Samples instead of real... which made every song
sound exactly the same. And then finally, the Singers all sung the same way.. and
were not even good singers. Music became a corporate exercise instead of a
wonderful creative process... and they ruined the entire industry, much like they ruined
just about every other area in life.
And now... they want to make you pay $1 or more for a single compressed to hell,
track? lol. I dont think so.
Its bad enough when your CD which was supposed to last forever... wont play
and you get no discount for your previous investment. (They have long had the technology to cheaply make CDs last 100x as long) But now, when your PC and or
music player dies.. all your hard earned cash is Gone. Proof of purchase? Sorry,
dont mean squat to them. There is no foundation for that, intentionally.
Its very shameful and sad. I actually was looking forward to buying the latest
Megadeth cd. However, after hearing how brutally bad they butchered the sound
quality on it... Ive passed. And as much as I Love their music.. .I REFUSE to pay for
that garbage. And NO, Im NOT going to pay $20 for some new format if/when it
kicks in.
Im not made of gold. +$20 for a Blueray disc?! Yeah right! Aint gona happen.
They can make billions more if they drop prices. The mass media costs them pennies to
make.
People should stop buying all media for a year or two. Let the entire industry fall to pieces. Then maybe when people try to rebuild it... it will have some actual Value to it again.