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Variable Pricing Hits iTunes

Posted 04/07/2009 at 4:24:10pm | by Roberto Baldwin

When Apple announced that they would be introducing variable pricing to the iTunes store, while at the same time removing DRM from its music, most figured Apple had made a deal with the devil. The devil being the music industry. Apple had ventured to the crossroads and returned with DRM-free music, but had paid a heavy price.

Well that price turns out to be $1.29. All music in the iTunes store is now DRM-Free iTunes Plus.

The new pricing plan gives the record companies the chance to make an extra $.30 on popular songs. For example, today's top three singles are $1.29. Apple is showcasing Rock and Classic R&B songs for $.69 on the music store's main page. Probably as an antidote to people complaing about the new $1.29 price point.

We're hoping a bargain bin button appears on the store so we can find our favorite artists' songs at $.69. Fingers crossed.

COMMENTS: 4

TAGS: iTunes plus, iTunes Store

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AGH!
Submitted by lukeforester1 on Tue, 2009-04-07 15:36

Well I havent looked at iTunes yet but I have a strong feeling that about two songs will go down in price for every 5! POOP!!!!!!!!

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69cents?
Submitted by nightshrill on Wed, 2009-04-08 04:44

What I find baffling is what exactly is deemed to be at the 69 cents at this point. I listen to quite a bit of obscure post-punk and goth, stuff that I'm usually just surprised is even on iTunes and I looked up some of the obscurist things that I know they have...all still at 99cents!? So i'm curious as to how bad something needs to be to be 69 cents, in the meantime I still uphold my policy of not buying anything on the iTUnes store, why pay 10 dollars for an album of lossy quality and if you delete the file/something happens to your computer you're screwed, when for an extra 5 dollars you can just get the cd?

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hmm
Submitted by CajunItalian on Wed, 2009-04-08 11:40

This sounds like a bad idea..

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