Hi,
If you are lucky, you can still pick up the Franz Ferdinand 12" single for less than a £5. I can understand the £12 price though.
Franz Ferdinand are in demand so people are making the most of it. They are on tour & are riding high in the media frenzy. When this happens prices of certain records & cds can rise. I had an Oasis promo which, in it's heyday, was worth £300. After the hype died down a bit, the demand dropped & so did the price.
Yeah, I like to get a dig in now and then, cos I can't see why people buy anything promoted [and therefore expensive].
It's easier to sell heavily promoted music. Create the demand & you can get the sales. Bomb people with image & info of artists & you can create interest.
You have got to ask yourself how did people get to hear about the music they own? How do people get to hear about something different?
There has been many way of getting music to the people. These have included word of mouth, radio airplay & video play. The music industry is a business like any other. You need to make money. This applies to the 'next big time acts' as well as the small time independant acts. It is not hard to see that to get on in this industry, you do need to get in the 'sauage machine' at some stage.
Another big problem is that most new music is not radically different to what has gone before. After around 50 years of popular music. It's hard to come up with something totally new & original.
Amazingtrade,
I know that Fopp will give you your money back or exchange the cd if you bought it & didn't like it. Also there is nothing stopping you going into most record shops & asking to have a listen to few tracks.
SCIDB