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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GTRZ" data-source="post: 1879344" data-attributes="member: 1">You got to understand the market and how products and price change depending on the people's need. You are having a totally wrong idea machan.If we can reduce illegal copying then sales will increase then it's up to music makers to reduce the price or keep it as that. If they reduce the price there will be more sales. Its up to them to make more sales or just keep the price up and share it with few number of people. So music and artists depends on popularity so they want to get popular as much as they can so surely they will have to reduce the price and get more people to listen to their songs. Then they can reduce the price because they got enough sales to cover the costs. I am not talking about price in western countries but the price of western albums in srilankan stores. Srilankan album prices are much lower than that too.And why don't you think about the production cost. Our people get equipments or media for cheap? Its even more expensive than other countries. Our radio stations or any TV channel paying royalty for artists when they play their music? never. So basically if you really don't wanna buy albums then you can stop it. Why asking them for free. It means you want them so in simple like other stuff their is a cost to cover so there will be a price tag. Record companies try to cover the cost by selling CDs, If you take the cost of media then cassettes are more expensive then CDs. Anyway if you don't like that then you can buy cassettes. hehe I know you will say less quality and you want CDs. Then its just business they set the price for the demand. Overall they want to cover the cost. Already music industry is a big risk. You spend tons of money on an album and you are not sure how much you will get in return. Nope you are dead wrong even if you give an album for Rs 100 it will only increase the sales in small percentage while your overall income will get very low since you are giving the album 5 times less than the usual price. In srilanka until people can't get the music for free they will never buy it even how cheap it goes. I mean majority of the people. So it should be reduce of illegal copying and dropping the price as sales grows method.  About radio stations it's already there and its not an alternative for music albums. I think i don't have to explain about it.</blockquote>

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