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Originally Posted by Lemurion
The music industry loved it when everyone re-bought their entire collection of records and tapes on CD.
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What I liked 'best' about that shift was how records out of nowhere became 50% more expensive here and never returned to the price they were before.
Before Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' became the first CD available, LPs were 19 CHF (Swiss Francs). CDs hit the store for 29 CHF a piece. The higher price being justified by Philips and the record companies as being the result of more expensive production costs.
A good 20 years later and CDs never got any cheaper. While every John, Dick, Harry, Granny, Aunty and saliva driveling dog can burn CDs for less money than it costs to take a pee in a public toilet, the record companies earn 10 CHF on every CD without any justification whatsoever.