Audio Dependent wrote:yeah i agree with most of this thread. i'm in the uk and we get proper stitched up here on beatport. for example - the minus expansion compilation on beatport is £17.91 and to buy it on cd from juno is £11.99. ok you get a couple of extra tracks but this is downloads man there just aren't the same overheads involved and 18 quid for any album in the uk is expensive in any format. albums on bleep are usually £7 and individual tracks are £0.79. this is much more reasonable and more reflective of the market in the uk. beatport have just got greedy imo and are exploiting the difference in the strengths of currency. and its not like i get royalties with regard to where i am and how much i pay for tracks. it all seems a little unfair to me and does stop me from buying as much as i'd like from beatport.
I totally agree that it seems very strange that there isn't a discount on these album things where the album ends up costing 15-19$/£... but then again, it's digital, don't buy it all
As soon as I download tracks I head over to discogs.com to get the artwork, but it would be nice if they could include it.
When it comes to tracks that are available on CDs, I almost always spend the money on the CDs. These rediculous full album prices are a joke.
One thing I found funny was the ESP album "i am psychic you know" is $9.99 at sursomcorda.com (Found the link on Woody's webpage). This same album from Beatport is $23.84. Both are 320kb MP3s and all 16 tracks. I don't know how much of that is the artist and how much is Beatport, but there is no discount for buying the whole album.
my math skills today is amazing...