Are CDs over-priced compared to DVDs?

We’ve been having this … discussion [funny how more and more discussions include phrases like ‘nuts’ (this is a family blog), ‘I married you why?’, and ‘OK, ask people on the Blog what THEY think’] about whether CDS *SHOULD* be priced at the same price as DVDs, [and with pre-viewed DVDs being so plentiful, more like two to four times the price I pay].

*I* say [and I write the blog so I get the first word in :-)] that DVDs are twice as long, have extras, and have video as well as sound. This should make DVDs four times MORE expensive than CDS, and that it is only our beloved recording industry whose monopoly has driven the price of CDs up to ridiculous levels.

*They* say [and Neli is among these sorely misguided people, poor girl] that we listen to CDs over and over again, whereas we only watch movies once or twice. So CDs are worth more because they provide more entertainment in the end. [funny, using this metric, ‘Kind of Blue’ and ‘Star Wars’ should go for $Millions. They are WORTH millions, but that value is spread out amongst the millions of copies people ‘own’ of them].

Anyway, on this blog I may lose this argument 🙂 But I think in the marketplace, people feel that $19 for a new CD is too much and are voting with their wallets by Not Buying Them. Almost all of us now have bought and made a data CD for ten cents – the rip-off factor is kind of in-our-face.

That said, I heard clips from the newest Steven Stills CD yesterday with cuts from the original CSN tapes. I think I will get ripped off at least one more time 🙂