{"id":1773,"date":"2010-04-18T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:25:33","slug":"buck-twenty-nine-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/buck-twenty-nine-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Twenty-Nine Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, Amazon.com raised the prices on some of their MP3 offerings to $1.29. Previously, songs were offered in the $0.89 to $0.99price range individually, and less when buying entire albums.<br \/>\nThis was a move mirrored by Apple and other online music sales  due to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/amazon-follows-apple-to-$1.29\/\">price hikes and retail price demands from record labels <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a big fan of Amazon MP3, and this price hike greatly saddened me. It also changed my music consumption habits, or rather reverted them. I&#8217;ll still buy a $0.99 song from Amazon, but if the offering isn&#8217;t available at that price point, I will <em>break the law<\/em> and download the song &#8212; often the entire album, because that&#8217;s just as easy &#8212; for free.<\/p>\n<p>The music industry continues to slowly dig it&#8217;s own grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, Amazon.com raised the prices on some of their MP3 offerings to $1.29. Previously, songs were offered in the $0.89 to $0.99price range individually, and less when buying entire albums. This was a move mirrored by Apple and other online music sales due to price hikes and retail price demands from record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,8],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-music","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}