Reply #22: $0.88 for a single in my day [View All]

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and albums ran $3-$5 in the early 70s IIRC. Cheap enough even so high school and college students making not much more than minimum wage could afford to take a chance on new artists.

I can actually think of a legitimate use for file swapping. It's long been established that it is permissable to make an archive copy of copyrighted material for private use, e.g., taping records. Well, I have all this old vinyl - legitimately purchased by me, I might add - that I'd like to transfer to MP3 so I can listen to it again. I certainly don't want to spend $$$$$ rebuying it on CD. Darn! I forgot: that's exactly what the recording industry wants.

Linda, whose household music purchases have gone from an album a week in the 70s to maybe 3 or 4 a year now - and not from major labels, either