marintrails t1_j6ir70y wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:02 PM

Reply to comment by ballsoutofthebathtub in Did pirated music help the iPod become popular? by EglinAirBaseIntern

Don't forget that when they switched from vinyl to CDs they doubled the price overnight "temporarily to repay for the cost of the factories". Of course the prices never went down.

ballsoutofthebathtub t1_j6it7g4 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:15 PM

Yes they were massively greedy and got punished for it once file sharing came along.

I remember I bought a Prodigy CD which is fittingly called ‘The Fat of the Land’ some time around ‘99 or 2000. For some reason I never took the price sticker off, so I remember it costing £19.99! That’s fucking mental. The minimum wage at the time was £3.60.