5 pounds for .MP3?

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Random Tox

With no manufacturing or marketing cost, and no record company taking a fat slice, UW is probably getting over 90% of our £5 per download. With traditional CD releases they may have seen 10% return.

ok, i get the quality issue, but why begrudge UW getting paid their dues for something they made...the same issue of royalties would apply if this was in any downloadable format and is irrelevant to the issue of quality...

there's no point picking up on the issue of mp3 quality and making it into a "UW are money grabbing bastards" point when making it in wav or Flac or whatever would produce the same monetary issues...

Ok UW could and perhaps should have issued it in other formats, but the fact is they haven't yet...but come on, if £5 is too much for you to pay for an mp3, then don't pay, you've already said you'd pay £5 for a decent quality version but that would have the same 'royalty' issues

its still 'milking the fans', if that's how you see it, whatever format its in...