Being a musician, i'm a huge advocate of actually buying cds, but the industry makes it so damn hard for me to hold this view.
They say downloading is cutting in to profits, so they raise prices --> this makes cd's harder to afford --> people download more --> not as much cd sales --> they increase prices again --> more downloading...
If they would see the error in their ways and simply cut the costs of cds, they could stop this vicious cycle. The consumer base can obviously not stop this; so record companyies need to stop wasting time suing decent programmers and programing companies and just stop charging out the ass for fucking cd's.
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