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bartosso
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 3:34pm |
Answer to this question depends on which country you live in. I'm a bit surprised that the current prices are too high for you guys, they are way too high for me but let's take look at this...
Average monthly wages in $: Germany - 2838 France - 2845 UK - 2556 Poland - 815 So to me, the most reasonable price would be 2-4 dollars, ha ha ha.
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SKwid
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yeah, depending on the band, ive seen new cd's go for as much as $20 which is way too much.
i tend to buy mostly used albums.
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UMUR
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New albums in Denmark often cost as much as $25, which is a completely ridiculous price IMO. I seldom purchase CDs in stores for that very reason. I almost always purchase music via Amazon.
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IMPF2112
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$15 is the absolute max I believe an album should cost. The only exceptions would be if it's a double album or if it's really rare or something like that.
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rushfan4
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I tend to buy most of my CDs used from the $4 to $8 range, but I will buy new CDs when they are on sale in the $9.99 to $12.99 range if they are CDs that I really want. I did just buy a number of CDs from CDBaby for $5 each, but these are of bands that I hadn't heard of, but their descriptions sounded like bands that I would enjoy.
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Andyman1125
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I think a reasonable price would be $8-15 (US Dollars). If a CD is over 20 dollars, it better be a double album, or else I'm not buying it.
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Pelata
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Oh, and I agree that if prices were lowered, people would buy more. The FYE stores in my region started a $9.99 sale campaign (every regular CD in the store was $9.99) that lasted a few months...sales picked up and they made money. But the labels pitched a hissy fit about profit margins (they were making money too...just a little less of it in terms of percentages) and threatened to not serve the stores anymore, so FYE had to cancel the campaign.
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Pelata
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I buy a lot of my CDs used, so on average I pay about $7.00 US each for CDs (some more, some less)...
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The Block
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^ I absolutely love Amazon! That is where I get the majority of my Cd's.
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adg211288
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The price I pay for something depends on a couple of factors.
1. How much I want it. 2. How obscure it is. I think the most I have paid for a CD in the last year was �12.99, which was for Anubis Gate's Andromeda Unchained. I really wanted that one and it looked to be increasingly hard to get since their label went bankrupt or something. Unless it's a real rarity I think �12.99 is the maximum reasonable price for a standard CD. That said, I rarely pay that much. A lot of my recent buys have been �3.99 - �7.99 at most. EMP is a good site for bulk orders. They always have �4.99 P&P no matter how much you order, so a few �3.99 bargains and you've a pretty good value package overall even if you throw a couple of dearer CDs in there. Highly recommend ebay hunting though, most of my more obscure purchases have come from ebay, albums that I couldn't even find on Amazon, and I've often got a great deal on albums I expected to have a bidding war over. I sometimes buy used as well, depends on how good the condition is. I'm fortunate enough to have a used music shop which sometimes have some good metal in it a few minutes drive away from my house, I got some great used albums there, usually for �3 each. Buying second hand online not so much, for some reason I go to Amazon's used and new section, and used prices are always way above new ones. Never worked that one out yet. As for postage costs, yes they're annoying at times, but I just think of the postage as part of the price of the CD. As I said �12.99 is my max price for a new normal album, if P&P is going to be extra I don't consider the buy a good deal. Amazon seller's postage rate is a flat �1.24 at the moment though, so a good deal is usually to be found, even when ordering from a seller in the US (which is often how I get my best deals). This is getting to be a longer post than I initially planned, so I'll close with this - the one thing I detest the most is places that charge several pounds more for special editions that only have one bonus track.
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The Block
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I think a fair price should be around $10 if it's new, if it's not new it should be around $7, I think. I hate when something new comes out and it has it every for around 16 bucks. Like when "The Final Frontier" came out I bought it for $10 bucks but at my local record store it was $16!
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Stooge
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I really don't know what a fair price is for a CD these days. Stores near me charge anywhere between $10 and $20 for a new release on CD. It's usually pretty random. I was surprised that when I bought Agalloch's Marrow of the Spirit it was only $11.99 (rather cheap compared to other albums). When an album goes unsold, they often raise the price of the album.
I'm not a fan of building up my music collection through illegal downloads, and I love to browse through music at the stores. This means I often go the second-hand route. It's easy enough to find vinyl where I live since there are a few weekend flea markets near me and a pretty good record store, but for CD's I usually go here: http://www.dejavudiscs.com/ , which is probably my favorite store. Edited by Stooge - 27 Dec 2010 at 1:56pm |
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J-Man
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That's so true! Unfortunately, most of the record industry sees it more as "we're not selling enough, so let's raise the prices and capitalize on each CD sold", which is actually the problem in the first place. |
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For a new release, I think it should be somewhere around $15. If a new release is more than that, I'll probably just wait a little bit until it goes down.
The record store that I go to has a terrific "clearance metal" section where I can find tons of old used CD's. Most of the CD's in this section are $2-$3. I've gotten every single Death and Morbid Angel album from this section, in addition to various other cheap finds. It doesn't usually have anything from the last 10-15 years in it, but that works for me. |
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Vehemency
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8-13 euros for a new CD is standard in distros from where I buy my music and it's a good price. Often it's around 12 euros. There's even some labels that put out their new CDs at 5 dollars a piece (Nuclear War Now). LP standard 15 euros, tape standard 4 euros.
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UMUR
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Now that�s more like it.
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UMUR
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I�m afraid Amazon charges when it�s outside the UK Steve.
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Metalbaswee
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The site that i order at, charges �1.95, no matter what you order, 1 cd, 30 cd's. Wich is great. Only they don't have to many underground releases.
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Colt
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yeah it is!
Its the main reason why I will use Amazon or Play.com first. No delivery charges.
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