Post #308915 by Quince_at_Dannys on Fri, May 25, 2007 9:42 AM

rupe33,

I think you just nailed it, as far as a cost-effective way to get more access to their catalog to fans like us. I kept thinking to myself that they don't release the albums because of the cost of producing CDs, packaging, and shipping for such a limited audience (honestly, there's probably only a few hundred of us who would buy the complete albums from these space age artists.) But selling MP3s is a no-brainer.

I'd like to see them do iTunes style pricing format but make it even cheaper--$0.50 a song and $5 an album for "Capitol Classics." The guy on basichip.com has a setup kind of like that ($2.00 an album) but Capitol would have the marketing muscle to sell a helluva lot more copies. Even I would buy some of the things already have on vinyl, just to get the high-quality master.

Of course the suits at Capitol are so fricken' clueless they won't catch on for another 10 years.