Music Should Catch Up

Music Should Catch Up to the Market
I picked up a PC Magazine the other day at work. I don't normally like the columns John Dvorak writes because they're so opinionated. Yes, I realize they are opinion columns but he rubs me the wrong way. Yet, I'll still read his column when I pick up a PC Magazine. Go figure. Anyhow, in this article, titled "One Buck Forty or Die," Dvorak talks about how rampant music sharing has become. Anyone with half an idea about the Internet knows how rampant it is, even with Napster gone.

Basically, Dvorak tells the music industry to catch up with the times. Instead of putting out commercial after commercial chastising people for sharing mp3s, they should lower the price of music. "It's a matter of competition," he says. I completely agree. It's not a morality issue. People are simply trying to get a product for the cheapest price possible. Since the markup on music is insane, people are not buying CDs. Logically, if the music companies lowered the price of a CD, people would start buying them again. I know that if CDs were 4 or 5 dollars (rather than 15 or 20), I would be more than happy to go back to buying CDs! The industry just needs to realize that by being greedy and finger wagging, they're not helping themselves.

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