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April 09, 2014

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Sideshow

Most of the tracks I go to purchase are now $1.29. A 30% increase in price and a 5% reduction in sales. Seems worth considering that this may be one factor.

John

I'd probably buy more digital music downloads if the quality weren't so awful ... over-modulated, clipped, distorted garbage. The so-called loudness wars extend to CD's as well, but it seems worse, or at least harder to deal with on downloads. The least they could do is offer then in non-lossey formats. It seems very greedy for music companies to charge just as much for a digital download while delivering less quality with none of the costs of hard copies.

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