Comment 73149

By Borrelli (registered) | Posted January 18, 2012 at 12:14:31

I would gladly pay a nominal fee for the content that we currently stream illegally - ie I would pay for knowing it was good quality and malware free.

Agreed. During those lean University years, when money was for food, rent, and barely anything else, a music lover (like me) wouldn't have thought twice about spending an hour grabbing the week's new releases from a torrent, because buying $20 physical copies of music was simply out of the question.

Now with some disposable income in hand, and a lot less free time, I'm more than happy to pay the much more affordable and realistic price of about $10 for an album, especially if it's an artist I love and want to support.

$10 for the immediate gratification of owning the music isn't unthinkable, but I think its incredible that it took so long for the industry to settle on a reasonable price tag, and how much less it actually amounts to ($10 in 2012 dollars as compared to $20 in 2002 dollars).

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