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The real problem with this business model
We all know that there are going to be songs you don't care for, on almost every CD on the market. Most CDs end up only having 2-6 songs you really want to hear. Nobody really likes paying ~$15.00 for a disk with only two good songs. Individual downloads at $1.00 or less per song, could be quite economical. So far it's not a bad business model. But there's still a big problem...
How do you know which songs are the ones you want to buy?
You can't always go by the radio, because the large market stations only release a new song every few weeks (sometimes months.) The record studios prefer this, to get the maximum album purchase saturation. Everybody who likes the first "hit single" has three weeks to buy this album. When sales slow again, there's a "new hit single" and another period of increased record sales. [Case in point, 3 Doors Down, The Better Life - the local stations were playing their 4th "new hit single" 6 months after their first hit song hit the air.]
The first company that figures out how to let you hear the whole disk two or three times before making your individual song purchases is the one that I think will win the market share in the end.
Just my $0.02
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