CDs To Get Cheaper: Will You Buy Them? [POLL]
Universal Music Group will drop the prices on the majority of its new CD releases to between six and 10 dollars. This plan — dubbed the Velocity program — will go into effect in the second quarter of this year.
UMG hopes this plan will at least slow the serious decline in CD sales that has been going on since MP3s and other digital music downloads came on the scene.
While UMG has its hands in music downloads and streaming, too, the profit margins are usually better with CDs. UMG claims that its cheaper CD plan will maintain a 25% profit margin.
Up until now, most new CDs have actually been more expensive than their download counterparts. If the price comes down, consumers will be more likely to purchase the goods. It’s a simple economic principle. But to try to incentivize music fans even further, UMG plans to load the jewel cases with “deluxe” content that you won’t usually get with online purchases.
We’re not going to complain about lower prices. We welcome anything that reduces consumers’ expenses. But do you think this will actually make a difference? A couple of us in the Mashable office haven’t bought a CD in years — if you’re the same, will UMG’s plan turn you around?
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Do you think Obama's poll numbers will bounce back above 60 if this healthcare bill passes?
The same healthcare bill that has no public option, no watered down public option, no medicare buy-in, a federal mandate to buy private insurance…..and due to the backroom deal between the Obama White House and BIG PHARMA, there will be no cheaper drugs.
This bill appears to be a "stimulus" for the Insurance and Pharmaceutical industry. (I mean they get 30 million new customers by force, and the Obama WH has ensured that BIG PHARMA will continue to screw Americans over on drug prices)
So do you think Democrats will get a bounce in the polls?? Or have they divorced themselves from reality??
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Dems_anticipate_a_health_care_bounce.html
There’s no point in the White House saying this, so it won’t.
But an official predicted to me the other day that Obama’s numbers would hit 60 after the health care bill passes, and Chuck Schumer seems to think roughly the same thing: that the public polling on the Democratic reform bill will turn around "soon."
When people see what is in this bill and when people see what it does, they will come around," Schumer said. "The reason people are negative is not the substance of the bill, but the fears that the opponents have laid out. When those fears don’t materialize, and people see the good in the bill, the numbers are going to go up."
karl……"Approval numbers will soar because Obama will NOT be seen as a failure anymore."
But he sold out his entire platform and everything he promised as a candidate to pass it. You wouldn’t consider that "failing" the voters??
Not a chance in hell. Approval numbers will plummet.
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His numbers will increase to the positive for a number of different reasons. Time is what is needed after he was dumped on so horrendously by Bush.
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No. As time passes polls are showing people think this bill will increase the debt and they’ll be paying higher premiums. Once it hits the American pocketbook, people will start getting angry.
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No.
The numbers will go up as fast as unemployment goes down.
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The majority of the people do not want BHO programs they need jobs and all that gets done is spending on pork projects and other lets help the union projects.
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No, they will go even lower. The one supporter he had is mad as hell at what has transpired with this bill. He and I argued constantly and now we are both disappointed.
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Have anyone of us who are e-punditing on the thor-damned health care bill bothered to read it?
Approval numbers will soar because Obama will NOT be seen as a failure anymore. He will not be seen as weak anymore.
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It will bounce back but not that much…
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Materializing those fears will take several years…..
The Democrats are banking on it….
The Republicans are pointing it out….
Just as many on the left have said "we didn’t create this mess and how can you expect it to be corrected in a year, give it more time"
It would seem they will not take their own advise nor see the outcome of their choices today but rely on the presence of time to advance an agenda that will tear the very fabric of our Country apart.
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Shummer is an ugly angry person, did you hear how he treated an airline steward in the first class section? No! he will tip over and crash below recovery, and the trouble will come from the democratic party.
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When the economy improves, as it inevitably will, his approval numbers will go up. Ronald Reagan had low approval numbers early in his first term, but by 1984, the economy was better, and it was "Morning in America". You know what happened next.
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Perhaps briefly but I doubt it. Many people are opposed to it and when the taxes hit they are going to be really unhappy. When they realize they get nothing for the extra taxes they will be paying, there will be a lot of angry people.
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I can’t see how they will… unless of course they poll the red neck trailer trash that put him in office. Those with an ounce of common sense will not approve of this mess.
when you speak of "failure to Karl… the fact that it’s moving forward is a failure for him and the country alike. It’s a sad day in America.
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Considering 60% of the people do not want the bill, he is currently at 45%, I would say he will get to the upper 30′s
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Nope. Going against the will of 61% + of the people is political suicide.
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When your enemy is tearing down his house, hand him a hammer.
No. The Democrats think America is full of stupid rednecks. Those stupid rednecks vote.
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not if 57% of the people don’t want this pig of a bill. He is doomed. Pass or fail, it is his Waterloo, his bay of pigs
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What drug are you on this will wipe out the private insurers in no time the cadillac insurance plans that the unions hold will not be taxed, Acorn is back in! All these sweetheart deals some states are getting and other states that are not will have to pick up the bill 56% of Americans dislike the bill. The only people who like it are trial lawyers and union workers! Kill this screwed up bill,and by the way they stuck the abortion part back in ! Please share the drug you are on so the rest of us won’t have to bear the pain of it passing!!!!!!!
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