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- From: gustavo@dent.uchicago.edu (Gustavo Comezana)
- Subject: Re: CD prices
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.220304.23094@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, U. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec24.191243.9008@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <92364.142542U58402@uicvm.uic.edu> <1992Dec29.212757.21836@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:03:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.212757.21836@midway.uchicago.edu> gustavo@dent.uchicago.edu (Gustavo Comezana) writes:
- >In article <92364.142542U58402@uicvm.uic.edu> <U58402@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >>These sorts of analyses are very interesting, but I think that from the
- >>standpoint of the consumer, this is the wrong index to use. What we
- >>probably should be looking at is cost/minute of listening time we will
- >>devote to out new purchase. For example: I buy two discs: one is a
- >>budget priced edition of the Beethoven Piano Concertos, the other is
- >>Dawn Upshaw's "Girl With Orange Lips". The budget beethoven is a three
- >>disc set, about 200 minutes of music for say $22, but it really sucks. I
- >>listen to it once and put it away. The Dawn Upshaw disc is about 50
- >>minutes, runs $15 (I didn't wait for the storewide sale), but I have
- >>happily listened to the disc ten times so far, and show no signs of
- >>shelving it. The budget Beethoven gave me 200 minutes of mediocre
- >>entertainment for $22, while the Upshaw gave me 500 minutes of first
- >>rate entertainment for $15. Now, which is the better deal?
- >>
- >>Now that I have finished this brilliant gedanken experiment :@) I
- >>realize that this actually supports the raising of CD prices. Nope. $21/disc
- >>is still too expensive for me.
- >
- >Let me supply you with an example that really works: take Kertesz' set
- >of Dvorak Symphonies (with shorter orchestral pieces thrown in for
- >good measure), on 6 budget London discs, which is a total delight for
- >both the ears and the wallet. If you play the set only four times, it
- >will give you about 1600 minutes of top-notch music in excellent sound
- >for a measly $42 (or less), that is, less than $0.27 a minute. As for
- ^^^^
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- Sorry guys, I meant $0.027 ($0.27 would have been terribly expensive!)
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- >a full-priced disc for comparison, take your pick: the current
- >catalogue is surely not lacking in lousy, expensive cd's that nobody
- >would willingly suffer through more than once ;-).
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