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October 26, 2005
$1.67 a song from itunes music store australia
Well, it took a while, but here in Australia, we now have an iTunes music store. Which means we can purchase content legally for our music players. It's a bloody sad inditement on the industry when it's taken this long to get services such as this up and running. I know the bigpond music service was met with a fairly lukewarm reception in the real world. I cannot help but wonder how well ITMS will do in Australia. Probably fairly well as the penetration of iTunes users is pretty happening thanks to the eponymous white headphone cult and the fact that iTunes as music software, no longer sucks poop.
Still. We have $1.67 as the price for a song from ITMS AU. Which I'm pretty surpised by. I know that to import goods it costs more, but in the digital domain price increases on music are down to the deals cut with copyright holders. So we're paying the equivalent of ~$1.28USD per track, that should you reside in the US, would cost you 99cents (USD). This looks pretty stupid to me. Full albums are $16.99 AUD which is also not cheaper than say for example, free, or legally speaking, JB Hi-Fi.
Still. It's here now, and another slow step forward in the domain of making actual legal content available to purchase. For me though, purchasing a CD through iTunes seems more like a triumph of consumerism over common bloody sense.
Posted by funnelbc at October 26, 2005 02:24 PM
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