How much is an iTunes download worth?

I will never buy a ringtone. Mine are either made from royalty-free sources or my own original recordings, and sound great to me. And that's all you need - something YOU like, which does the job. No legal need to pay anyone any money for that.

I'm willing to pay up to $1.29 per track, but only for DRM-free lossless audio.

The music industry just fell another rung lower on the circles of hell and are potentially about to pass Verizon at this point. And don't even get me started when you put the music industry and the cell carriers TOGETHER on an issue, such as ringtone fees. Seriously, people who come up with these pricing plans should be shot. There's nothing worth salvaging from a mind that thinks people should have to pay $2.50 to listen to 30 seconds of a song they already own.

How can you not understand their reasoning? If it hasn't bean made painfully apparent, record labels care about money.

"We're only getting this percent of sales price through the first channel.

We're getting away with a much higher sales price through a second channel, so that means that customers will pay for higher prices across the board.

Raise all prices!"

They're getting a way better deal than in stores. And if I've bought the right to play it, I should be able to do so on my phone, it's not like I'm broadcasting. And that right isn't worth any more if all that changes if the networking (3G).

This is the reason Reznor is god. He's realized what the consumers all did years ago and is putting all of our thoughts into action. The RIAA should be glad it is getting what it is when the economy is so bad. They're idiots.

This web site is getting fun.

Gnomes...

If they're gonna cost more it should be because they're using up additional AT&T bandwith...not because somehow the music is worth more because it's being downloaded via cellphone. You'd think they'd want as many venues for people to download their product... but instead they want to charge a premium for something that will, for the most part, be an impulse buy... they should be happy for any impulsing buying you can get!

Cell phone carrier greed will try to push iPhone purchase tracks to at least $1.50 is my guess.

"They argue that broadband music sales through the mobile iTunes store somehow should bring them a greater profit than sales through the standard iTS, pointing to industry practice for ringtone and ringback sales." Well then good for Apple for telling them no. So IF I use my iPhone to buy an album using the built-in app, I should pay a premium? riiight.
So Amazon should charge more for me buying through AmazonMobile??
Shame on us as consumers for allowing this shite to get this far. A song is a song, if it's worth $0.99 from my home computer, then it's worth $0.99 from my iPhone or whatever....