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marieclaire posted:Does anyone have that quote where he's talking about how he's like chillin in best buy or some big store like that and he sees how his CDs are really over priced, specially compared to all the other CDs?
i need it for a paper
Try this (I'm not sure where you can find the audio)-- it may not be the only place he mentioned it, but it's the first I found: [ www.theninhotline.net]
posted:I created a little issue down here because the first thing I did when I got to Sydney is I walk into HMV, the week the record's out, and I see it on the racks with a bunch of other releases. And eery release I see: $21.99, $22.99, $24.99. And ours doesn't have a sticker on it. I look close and "Oh, it's $34.99". So I walk over to see our live DVD Beside you in Time and I see that it's also priced six, seven, eight dollars more than every other disc there. And I can't figure out why that would be.
Did you have a word to anybody?
Well, in Brisbane I end up meeting and greeting some record label people, who are pleasant enough, and one of them is a sales guy, so I say "Why is this the case?" He goes "because your packaging is a lot more expensive". I know how much the packaging costs: it cost me, not them, it costs me 83 cents more to have a DC with the colour-changing ink on it. I'm taking the hit on that, not them. So I said, "Well it doesn't cost $10 more" "Ah well you're right, it doesn't. Basically it's because we know you've got a core audience that's gonna buy whatever we put out, so we can charge more for that. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy it. True fans will pay whatever". And I just said "that the most insulting thing I've heard. I've garnered a core audience that you feel its OK to rip off? Fuck you". That's also why you don't see any label people here, 'cos i said "Fuck you people Stay out of my fucking show. If you wanna come, pay the ticket like anyone else. Fuck you guys." They're thieves. I don't blame people for stealing music if this is the kind of shit that they pull off.
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