RTP-area local music and culture

["matty" <mfhedtDONTSPAMME AT mindspring.com>]

Yeah, but the first blank CDs were ~$40/each and now they're a nickel. Now 
you can get professional mastering/duplication/printing for <$2/disc, you 
could DYI-it for probably <$0.50/disc.

On the other hand, minimum wage is up from $3.35 to a whopping $5.15, so 
we're rolling in dough.

But $12 for CDs in the 80's was a huge ripoff. Now $12 - $14 feels okay to 
me if the disc is good, but it's too much to do a lot of speculative buying. 
I'll go out on a limb much more often in the $8/used bin or especially the 
$5 - $10 range buying directly from a band at a show. A band selling a CD 
for $15 at a show is usually a turn-off for me, I'm positively more likely 
to buy the $10 disc and give them gas money or couch space than do anything 
if the disc is $15 or more.

-Matt


"grady" <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote in message 
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>I was paying $12 for CDs back in the 80's. I was also paying 95 cents a
> gallon for gas, and $4 for lunch. I didn't go to many shows because I
> lived in bumfuck nowhere.
>
> In the 90s the average price of a show at the club now owned by you was
> around $6. I was still paying $12 for CDs. Lunch had gone up to $6.
>
> It's now 2006. The average price of a show at the club now owned by you
> is $8 (not counting Karaoke night & whatnot).
>
> You're apparently still paying $12 for CDs.
>
> A gallon of gas is now $2.40 or so. I paid $7.50 for lunch today.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
>