Is not anywhere near.
But prices of Universal CDs have come down, and how! CDs originally priced at 525, 475 and 395 rupees each are now on sale at Music World for 95 and 195 rupees each. Double CDs for 295 rupees.
Universal owns the rights to the music of Metallica, U2, Nirvana, Bjork, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Guns ‘n Roses, among others. Though I saw only some Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and U2 albums in the pile on sale right now, I think the others will come up for the same prices soon.
Personal buys: Khaled’s N’ssi N’ssi for 195, The Best of Bill Haley and The Comets and The Cranberries’ Bury The Hatchet for 95 each.
With prices like these, I think I will stop downloading albums, and buy up all those stuff that I own as mp3s, to show my appreciation for Universal music and their nice gesture. Viva Legitimacy! Viva Fair Price!
Psst.. any ‘classical’ deals?!
Schubert is what I noticed. The Banjara Hills outlet should have more titles, I guess.
Waiting for Guns ‘n Roses and Metallica to come under this scheme. :-)
Already has. Metallica’s Reload was available, U2’s October, and GnR’s Lies.
That.is.neat.
Next trip, shall hoard.
Update: Just back from Music World, banjara Hills, and the complete Metallica Cds were up for sale at 195/- each.
Ay carumba! I always choose the wrong time to move…You wanna control inflation? Just get me to shift. I have a cousin who’s a pretty good jazz musician and composer, actually. I was asking him about his take on the whole file-sharing thing- matter of his livelihood, right? His take was, if you can’t afford it, go p2p; but *once* you can afford it, you should buy. At least, the stuff you care about.
His take was, if you can’t afford it, go p2p; but *once* you can afford it, you should buy.
Precisely.
A corollary I would like to add to this is – if you can afford it, but it’s priced *too* high for comfort ( amazon+international postage+handling) or you can’t even find it anywhere around you – fair enough downloading it, at least until the time the prices come down.
Right now, I am buying many of the albums I got/downloaded as mp3s and loved in my college days.
How much is too high ? :) Isn’t that relative?
Support your band — go to the concert.
Heh.
Fair price for a cd = twice that of a cassette, IMHO.
:) twice that of a cassette … I should pirate everything then.
why? Its cheaper to manufacture a CD than it is to manufacture a tape.
CDs should be cheaper than tapes!
if that be the case, im never gonna be able to buy my fav albums. Period. so, p2p be the case for this broke bloke :(
Amazon are a bunch of thugs. Interestingly, what you’re doing is also exactly what my cousin is doing: ie, buying stuff that he loved, now that he can afford to.
Amazing post on Shogun Assassin and Lone Wolf btw. I love that movie. My online access has been…eccentric of late, but I should be back on lj reasonably soon.
Have you read any of the Lone Wolf books? Please do, if you haven’t already.
w00t! Here comes the pain(good)! :-D
I know. I am already feeling it. :-)
Here comes the pain(bad)!
My dad pays the bill, you know. :-D
where do u download music from ?