Quote Originally Posted by DonMike View Post
I have a huge beef with the record industry. I remember when the last Cocteau Twins album came out and being the die hard fan I had to buy all the singles as well as the CD. Each single was in two parts. So you basically had to buy the single twice to get all the B-sides. So I paid $18 for the CD itself and $10 per single which was the album cut (that I already had) and two new songs. There were two singles (with two CDs each). So for the amount of music that basically could have been a double album I paid about $60 for. And you wonder why Napster because so damn popular.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! Let's not forget the easily damaged media we're forced to utilize in CD's/DVD's and before that tapes and records. When a record would get scratched, tape warped or DVD/CD scratched, you had to pay all over again for something you already bought.

Remember the mini CD/DVD they had that was always protected in a case and you could slide it in the player and it would never get damaged? disappeared! Odd how we can't buy movies on flash drives that would never fail isn't it? Every time the format changes people have to re-buy their whole collection... not anymore.

Planned obsolescence began in the media industry and branched out to all the other industries. Now we have shitty razors that get dull after a few shaves, TV's that cost thousands of dollars and only have a few thousand hours of viewing time, etc. etc.

ok rant over but I completely understand the sense of entitlement our generation has over how we were fucked as consumers... unfortunately the new generation being raised thinks everything is free. A fix will come and we'll all be good to go again but until then it's a free for all unfortunately.