This is a riveting drama
Full story is atWalmart vs. RIAA
Posted by leflaw on October 13, 2004 at 5:21 AM (printer friendly)
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs
Biggest U.S. record retailer battles record labels over prices
Wal-mart wants every CD you buy to cost less than ten bucks. And the nation's largest retailer -- which moved a quarter of a trillion dollars' worth of goods last year -- usually gets its way. Suppliers who don't accede to Wal-Mart's "everyday low price" mantra often find their products bounced from the chain's stores, excluded from being sold to the 138 million people who shop at a Wal-Mart store every week.
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Hello,
Thanks for the story.
Boy you have a real issue with music and Riaa and so forth huh???
Well I only buy a few cds a year anyway. And no I don't download them of the internet (though I have bought a few songs of Itunes).
KevinDonatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Originally Posted by yoda313
And I try to educate others on Freedoms that they are losing.
I frequent www.slyck.com,
www.boycottriaa.com,
www.zeropaid.com,
www.donatemymusiccheck.com,
www.p2pnet.net,
http://diariaa.com/index.htm
www.eff.org
www.unitethecows.com
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Wal-Mart may actually be the one entity (besides government regulation) that causes the RIAA to concede to this... From sheer volume alone, Wal-Mart has got to be one of the largest, if not the largest entirely, seller of music cd's.
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Originally Posted by bazooka
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=wal+mart+music+censorship -
Originally Posted by thecoalman
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I prefer Target, but they both only sell the more current crap and totally ignore real music.
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Along with other giant retailers such as Best Buy and Target, Wal-Mart willingly loses money selling CDs for less than $10 (they buy most hit CDs from distributors for around $12). These companies use bargain CDs to lure consumers to the store, hoping they might also grab a boombox or a DVD player while checking out the music deals.
The music industry has one problem: not piracy, not internet downloading, not alternative forms of entertainment; their one problem is OVERPRICING!
If CDs cost $5 each and people could make MP3s out of them as they wished, there would be a huge rush to the stores and the music industry would be saved. Who would want to spend a long time to download a poorly made, low bitrate, MP3 album when you can get four full lenth albums for $20 including booklets and cases. Most people don't listen to more than 4 albums a month anyway and this way, people could be exposed to music fairly, that is get 48 albums a year instead of saving up to get 12 albums a year. I believe these kinds of costs could be possible and changes must be implemented if the industry is to survive. -
Every CD I have purchased in the last 3 years has been used. They are restored to there original condition, the guy even guaratees them forever..... 4 to 5 bucks each. Case is usually a mess but WGAF.
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Your right I would much rather buy a nice steak dinner ...besides I would just listen to the radio station they play the shit out of the song anyway
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Every time I take a peek at Wal-Mart for a new CD I want, I see the big EDITED label and go right back to my local music store. I'm not talking about rap either.
Nothing can stop me now, 'cause I don't care anymore.
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