Apple ending music restrictions

Wow. I love my Zune!

Finally! Figured it out again! Now we just have to wait for the price to come down.

adam and eve ate an Apple, and their minds were freed to see their nakedness and shame

itunes store sucks. Buy DRM free from amazon.

That was in fact the only great anouncement from this macworld expo, the rest was just to fill time.

Ooer, don't know how i feel about this staggered pricing ... I don't buy from iTunes but I think it's kind of cool that all music is sort of considered equal in the eyes of iTunes

Now if only iTunes would start selling music in South Africa.

What message is that projecting to the artists who were willing to jump on the Itunes bandwagon anyway? You are only worth 69 cents while Johnny's song is worth more.

The 69 cent songs are probably artists who require less in return. It will be nice getting older and less popular tunes for cheaper, I'm not complaining.

There are other services like amazon unbox that offer drm free music. What I want to see is drm free video downloads.

itunes is a ripoff....the way they format there music files is ridiculous.

Amazon does that already, lots of hit songs are actually .79 cents.

quote me from 2003... http://www.plusaf.com/lessons/dearriaa.htm

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Universal to Cut Prices of Its CD's, By AMY HARMON, New York Times, 09.04.2003

This following comment in the article,

"But some analysts said the price cut signaled a long-awaited recognition that the music industry needed to adjust its business model to fit a world where music can be sold or copied song by song. That might mean the industry needs to sell more music for less to make the same amount of money."

brought me a new idea: what the music industry is missing is that the songs themselves need to be priced to market. A popular good new song might be sold for $1.50 to $2.00 for a few weeks or a month, but when it slips down the charts, its "market value," hence selling price, should be racheted down, too. Mediocre songs by mediocre writers and singers might go for 25 cents, while popular classics might average around a dollar a cut.

Of course, and this is only my personal opinion, companies selling rap music with lyrics could offer to pay me to buy their "goods"... Nah, no they couldn't.... not for any price they'd be willing to pay me.... "

TOLD YOU SO... and 2009 proves it... tee-hee! 5.5 years lead time on those wizards.....

Thats pretty cool. But it would happen after I gave in and bought an iPod haha
Oh well.

oh how the bad apple has come much closer to falling off the tree, m a y b e w e ' l l s e e

yay now i can finally use itunes

At first I was put off by the price discrepancy, but now I see it as a possible positive marketing tool for newer and upcoming musicians trying to get their name out there. Consumers may be less likely to buy a current no-name for the same price as that Beyonce hit or whatever. Now the lesser known folks will have tunes available for half the price of popular songs, therefore enticing people with the idea of buying twice as many songs.

This is awesome news! The restrictions are such a pain in the ass...

For years the music companies took anywhere from 94 to 91 cents of every dollar made on a record, and gave the rest to the artist, who thought of, wrote and performed the music...and now THEY claim ripoff?
payback's a bitch!