Again though, as long as there are crazy fans out there willing to spent the money, there will be shady executives willing to feed the craziness! Mind you, despite being Björk's biggest fan, she may very well be the shady one in the end too. Like the Radiohead example earlier, I find that slightly disingenuous. With the taxes, shipping and all, It would have been cheaper to just buy the downloads. Today, the physical CD's aren't available anymore yet they are for downloads on different formats. At the time I did, there was no downloads available for those singles. Now, what bother me here is, I did bought/ordered the 4 physical CD-singles a month ago. And as long as there are endless debates here (or anywhere else for that matter) about the so-called differences between FLAC and WAVE, artists like Björk and others (or companies executives) will charge the so-called differences accordingly. I am not saying It is fair but It is what It is. I personally am not offended by the price difference here. Oddly enough, I did bought the 4 different physical CD-singles a month ago and they were all the same price regardless how many songs are on It. Not that It change anything with your argument but. Therefore, the 4 songs EP is €7.20 for WAVE where the 3 songs EP is €5.40 and so on.

Not that you're wrong in what you are saying here but the example you choose was for the only EP in The Crystalline Series that has 4 songs on It.ĭepending how you look at It, It all comes down to the same price per song: They charge more, so it's supposed to sound better, right? Again, the choice is nice, why the one costs more than the other is cynical pocket picking.Īny thoughts? Shall I contact them for explanation? WTF? Since when does a download WAV is supposed to sound better than a FLAC (which can be transformed into an identical WAV as the downloaded WAV). I bet the total revenue would not be smaller. It's commercial all right, but I hate it! I say, charge €3.99 for the MP3 and €5.00 for the FLAC.

Differentiate the prizes of essentially the same initial product, by downgrading it. It's like you make a car with 300hp and if the customer isn't willing to pay the price: detune it with software to 150hp and ask 2/3 of the price.

But I don't like the huge prize differences. Most are only MP3 (320 kbps, where it's mentioned), but her new 'biophilia' (full album not yet out, only some tracks) adds both WAV and FLAC to the flavour.įirst, I have nothing against the choice between MP3 and FLAC (on the contrary, seeing them as a choice will alert some folks that there are other formats than MP3). Funny this: Björk has a webshop (good for her) where you can also buy downloads.

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