What is the right price for music?
Posted: September 29, 2010 Filed under: Music | Tags: Amazon, iTunes, Music, music industry, price Leave a comment »Source: Digital Music News
What is the right price for music? It is a great question to ask everyone who are in the recording industry and consumers who listens to them. It is sad to see when everything else is getting more expensive as time goes, music gets cheaper and cheaper. It is even to a point cheaper than a cup of coffee.
Amazon.com often offers a special daily deals of an album right below $3 for digital downloads, Best Buy and many other retailers sell new release CD right below $10, and I think new LP with free digital download of the album is around $20. In a letter from Sufjan Stevens from Asthmatic Kitty Records (follow the source link) wrote
we personally feel that physical products like EPs should sell for around $7 and full-length CDs for around $10-12 We think digital EPs should sell for around $5 and full-length digital albums for something like $8.
It sounds about right with the pricing, but i personally think whether it is digital or a physical CD the price should be same at $7 for EP, $10 for a CD, and $12 for a special edition. In order to push this price plans, individual song sale price needs to be raised too. $2.99 for feature songs and $1.99 for any other songs. It may sound too expensive, but in reality there are millions of purchase a day in app stores and they don’t complain much about price they pay. Eventually record labels need to turn into marketing companies as technology develops and easy of release albums through many different formats. They dont’ need this giant distributors but they still need a company to market them. When consumers know purchasing an album doesn’t really help artists they loves to listen to, $2.99 a song will sound too much but let’s say 30% go to iTuens/Amazon, 30% record label, and 40% to the artist should be enough to encourage fans to purchase albums and songs.
Yeah, instead of a giant advances paying money for recording and all, but spend a lot of money in marketing only. Since artist’s portion of royalty at 40% is great enough to recoup the costs of marketing easily and after all fans will purchase music they like, record labels make money without too much of risks, and artists don’t have to only look for a giant advanced but enjoy writing new songs and engaging with fans.
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D
Posted: September 25, 2010 Filed under: Movie | Tags: 4/5, Resident Evil Leave a comment »It is sad that this is the first movie to watch since Inception. Anyway, it was another great experience watching at the Muvico and enjoy watching a movie there.
Back to the topic, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D was very entertaining. Of course I didn’t expect much. I simply wanted to watch some action movie and this movie fulfilled my desire. I wonder if non-3D would make much differences but I loved it anyway.
Honestly I do not have much to say about this movie. If you want a good entertainment, then go watch it. If you want a great movie, then don’t expect much at all. I enjoyed it, I liked it, and I’ll recommend it
My score: 4/5
Late night snack.
Posted: September 14, 2010 Filed under: Life | Tags: applebee's, late night, snack Leave a comment »No more eating applebee’s late night
Things to get done today.
Posted: September 2, 2010 Filed under: Life | Tags: to-do Leave a comment »Send replacement Nexus One back to HTC (they sent me non-working unit)
Submit school loan application
Lunch with Jenny
Tire-shopping
Put my camera on eBay.
Official Twitter app for iPad first impression
Posted: September 1, 2010 Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: app, iPad, Osfoora, Twitter Leave a comment »After i saw the app has been released i connected to app store right away had downloaded it. It is pretty simple and clean, works well. It seems working better in portrait then landscape. I like how it opens up a website if a tweet has a link. (it can also be a con)
Under setting it doesn’t have much options, so I guess what you get is what it is. I wish this came out two weeks earlier. I wouldn’t have to purchase Osfoora. I will give this one some time and see which one I like better.
Roger Clemens and his indictment
Posted: September 1, 2010 Filed under: Baseball | Tags: HGH, Indictment, MLB, Rocket, Roger Clemens Leave a comment »It is little late, but I decided to write anyway.
“Rocket” Roger Clemens, my childhood baseball hero indicted and pleaded not guilty. As I witnessing how this thing is going through, it somewhat upsets me. Let me be clear, I’m not upset simply this is regarding Roger Clemens.
Why does congressman wasting my money on issue like this? MLB is an association that are capable of handling this issue by themselves. Sure Roger Clemens possibly lied (I used word possibly since Rocket still claims he hasn’t used any HGH nor steroid) but congressman are the worst liars of all. They consistently lie. Mitchell Report, if i remember correctly this reports should have hundreds of players who used HGH/Steroids. This should be released to public. Every single player’s name. It is simply not fair only few are mentioned. Lastly, I do not like how media is covering the issue. I have many issue with media in this country but sometime I seriously have to wonder if they are purely delivering what is going on or listening to their opinions.
Rocket, I wish you the best and I truly hope that you come clean.
