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CD-Rs at the price of pressed CDs are a joke. They always have been. Such releases should be at least half the price, because I can burn them myself at home on my PC's DVD-burner and print the covers on my printer. However, it has reached the point of absurdity where new CD-R releases cost $20. Only naive people pay so much money for something like that. But if they pay, why should record labels bother about quality...
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Yeah? And I think it is absurd to pay for download or streaming only. At least with a CD-R we have a real thing and do support the label. Thinking this is stupid, well, strange thinking…
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I'm not against CD-Rs, but let them not cost as much, or more (sic!) as pressed CDs, because that's just a substitute for a decent product. It's a cheap substitute that anyone can make themselves at home. If you buy a Ferrari, you pay like a Ferrari, and you don't buy a fake Ferrari by paying the same amount for it as you would for the original one.
If a CD-R costs noticeably less than a pressed CD, I don't mind. Unfortunately, the market is so absurd that the labels give CD-R prices the same or even higher as if it were a pressed CD. And that's the problem and that's not what I agree with, that's why I don't buy them!
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I do know what you mean, but I am sure Mikael has its reasons… as long as I can put it in my CD player and it sounds great, all´s fine with.
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Exactly.
Let CD-Rs cost 1/3 of what pressed CDs cost. Then I will buy them.
Otherwise it's not an option.
In the same way that there is no way I would ever pay for a digital album.
I never did and never will, because I get digital albums for free on YouTube or Spotify.
Fortunately I have over a thousand scores on original pressed CDs in my collection, so there's plenty to listen to.
And these are the kind of labels I will continue to support always.
NO CD = NO SALE
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But that is so wrong… everything seems to be for free now, but do you think about the artists? The labels? You say, why pay if it is there for free. What world is that? Sorry I do not get it, maybe I am too old to understand that, but I grew up in a world where you I had to pay to get something you want. You work, you earn money, you spend it… (not all, but some).
Troublesome times me thinks.
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No, I have been paying for years and will continue to pay for a full-priced pressed CD product.
Not for a digital album, and not for a CD-R if it costs the same as a pressed CD.
It's simple. I do not pay for overpriced product substitutes.
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