Public Enemy to launch entire album on Web
from the Fight-the-power dept
As they said in that crossover-classic "bring 'da noize", 'What you wanna do, rap is not afraid of you'. They continue to prove it: $8 for the downloadable album (in AT&T's a2b format), or get a CD for $10, and either purchase includes -- free of charge -- a little "FU" to the recording industry. If memory serves, CNBC put the wholesale price of the average CD at $10.50 4 years ago (with COGS including artwork/liner notes at 55 cents!), so interesting to see a ~20%+ discount to wholesale.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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That's still 8$ for a cd and thats still too much.
i'm disappointed with this Secure Music garbage - its AT&T and eventually corporations will control the artists by this means too.
I wouldn't fall for this stuff, same stuff different package.
Long Live MP3
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