WTF Beatport!!

[Sean_Boy87]

anyone else seen this ... just went on beatport checking out my latest tunes from what ever artists and labels i like

£2.49 a song mp3!!!! fucking outrageous

[MelloState]

Yeah their pricing is a bit absurd for mp3 files. That should be the price of lossless imho

[photojojo]

Still cheaper than the vinyl days.

[Nikefutbolero]

Still cheaper than the vinyl days.

Yeah but with vinyl you get the actual record in physical form. This is for a file. It's absurd..

[photojojo]

And with vinyl you just spent $12 for four songs and three of them suck. And after playing it out enough it gets worn out or some drunk chick scratches it and you've got to buy it again.

[MelloState]

Yeah but with vinyl you get the actual record in physical form. This is for a file. It's absurd..

I was about to say... At least you get the full quality of the vinyl.

[MelloState]

And with vinyl you just spent $12 for four songs and three of them suck. And after playing it out enough it gets worn out or some drunk chick scratches it and you've got to buy it again.

true
they had their ups and downs

[ksandvik]

Wait three months and the same tracks are $1.49 or something similar. Oh the beauty of EDM where releases age within days.

[deevey]

And with vinyl you just spent $12 for four songs and three of them suck. And after playing it out enough it gets worn out or some drunk chick scratches it and you've got to buy it again.

Alot of my vinyl has survived longer than any Hard drive i've had, and outlived even most hard-drive protocols (USB1.1/IDE/SATA/SCSI) - I've only once had a vinyl destroyed beyond playable and that was after a party where the dj spinning after me dropped a hit rock on my last one (sure plenty have deep scratches and scrapes and pretty much worn down to the nub, but still playable).

Also with vinyl there was alot more people in the supply chain needed to get paid as well. The producer, distributor, deliver people, printer, cutting house, record shop.

$2.50 does seem crazy high for an MP3 with that taken into consideration.

[DarioJ]

http://forum.djtechtools.com/showthr...l=1#post509492

Might help a little. Just used the last one this weekend. Hopefully it works for you