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Subject: Re: Compact disks: A rip off?
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 11:55:12 EST
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> Has anyone else out there come to the realization that compact disks
> are, at least on one level, a way for the record companies to gouge the
> customer?
> result: we are forced to shell out double bucks for double albums.
> $24.00 (on sale) for the Who's Quadrophenia or Floyd's The Wall does not
> seem like a good deal, especially in light of the fact that double LP's
> are generally priced at a discount per album from single pocket sets.
> 
> Something is rotten in the state of CD-land, me thinks...
> 
> 				    David ("Dr DAP") Pearlman

    Well, it's not so bad, if you think about it, since you pay more
for a double album than a single album also.  I'm sure that as the 
forum 'matures', there will be improvements along those lines.  Eventually
they're supposed to manufacture a disc and player that will be able to
play BOTH sides of a CD.  Of course, we'll have to buy new players, but
hey, we all want to upgrade anyway, right?  :-)
-- 
David Arnold
University of Maryland
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