I seem to remember when I was younger paying £12 for a record album (sorry vinyl) and £15 for a CD album – now a chart CD can be purchased for £7 and the poor hard done by record companies still make a handsome profit, often at the expense of the artists themselves ….. !!!!
DVD’s were £20 a piece not so long back …..
Why have they come down in price – it’s not a kind hearted gesture by the film companies, it’s because they know people were downloading because the film and music industry were blatantly ripping people off.
It now costs almost £7 a person to go and see a film at the cinema ……
I’ve just purchased a copy of Microsoft Office for one of my little ones under the Microsoft Education programme – it’s cost £55 for the complete top of the range software suite – to buy online or in the shops normally thats not far off £500
Now tell me who’s killing the music, film or software industry – the few that are downloading or the big conglomerates who have the cake, have eaten it long ago but still want pudding, afters, supper and the rest !!!!!
Ohh, and have still convinced our Government they they are not to blame – it’s all of the rest of us ….?????

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It is all a crock of old tosh. These figures are theoretical and have been puled straight out of a hat with no scientific evidence to back them up. I have been in the music industry for the best part of 30 years and seen many changes in the medium. Like all businesses i have factored in shrinkage and petty pilfering. As an artist I make very little. We certainly don’t make the figures that have been quoted in the press over the past few days. The vast mark ups come from the retail sector, their overheads and government intervention. As a recording artist provided you have bought the original copy I couldn’t give a stuff as to how many times you burn it onto your other personal media gadgets.

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