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- From: jcm2w@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (John Clarke Mccanless)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: 2 discs vs 1 (was Re: Mahler 7)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230858.21261@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:08:58 GMT
- References: <RM0WB3L5@cc.swarthmore.edu> <1993Jan25.002007.6032@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan26.114314.7147@bristol.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan26.114314.7147@bristol.ac.uk> plcdib@bristol.ac.uk (C D I Bertram) writes:
- >just one disk at mid-price. One thing that does make me angry
- >about the price of CDs is the fact that when Mahler symphonies
- >(ed Rattle 2) spill over onto a second disk, the record companies
- >charge double the price of a single disk. I'm willing to buy
- >some of what they say about the cost of recording etc, but
- >no way does the provision of an extra disk and a *very few* minutes
- >more music justify doubling the cost.
-
- And you KNOW something's not right when, as is the case at at least
- one local store I frequent, the single CD's are 12.99 regularly, but
- double-CD's are 33.99, nearly *3* times the price! This very fact
- prompted Guns 'N' Roses to release their new double-album on two
- single CD's, saving their fans some money...
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- John C. McCanless jcm2w@virginia.edu
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- "Genius! Pure, unadulterated, GENIUS!!" - Wile E. Coyote
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