I think I saw the death of the CD today.
A while back I was browsing on iTunes and they were featuring a band called Bond. I listened to the 30 seconds samples of the songs and I was surprised that I liked every one of them. That’s almost unheard of for me. No pun intended. I could purchase all 13 songs on the album for $9.99. But I thought that I would be willing to spring a bit more to get the actual CD disk. That way I have a more permanent record of the songs and they will be of a higher quality.
Today I was at Best Buy so I took a look for the CD. It was there in the classical music section.
Twenty-three bucks??!
I was willing to pay $15-16, but that’s way too much. With that much of a markup, why would I want to pay that instead of downloading them directly from iTunes? Why would anyone?
If the sellers of CDs aren’t going to lower prices to compete with the online music stores, they aren’t going to last.
In their defense, the CD was dual layer. The second layer having a DVD of their music videos. But there was another CD by the group for the same price and it did not have the included DVD excuse.