iTunes charging 1.29 for some songs

Have not been on iTunes in quite some time, so you could imagine I was surprised when I realized I was being charged an extra 30 cents per song. It seemed like a small thing at the start but the more I think about it the more pissed I get about it.

Hey iTunes, eat a dick.

Any one else wana share there hatred towoards iTunes?

Never tie yourself in voluntarily to DRM management of any form and proprietary ways to utilise said technology.

They are also DRM free and at a higher quality to my knowledge.

Those are iTunes Plus DRM-free songs. If you don't like it, don't buy songs from Apple. There are plenty of alternatives.

its cause the artist did 30 cents more work.

/sarcasm

The thing is I get the feeling it has nothing to do with DRM. Its just apple saying "You know we could probably get away with charging more on these popular songs."

Buying music from iTunes is passing a certificate of stupidity for yourself.

" Have not been on iTunes in quite some time, so you could imagine I was surprised when I realized I was being charged an extra 30 cents per song. It seemed like a small thing at the start but the more I think about it the more pissed I get about it. Hey iTunes, eat a dick.Any one else wana share there hatred towoards iTunes? "

I'm thinking the only song I would pay that much for would be 'In the garden of eden' by Iron Butterfly. That thing goes on forever. 

I was pissed about it too. 

if you're pissed off with Apple and music studios for overcharging you... download your music for free.

yeeah i think its the whole iTunes + thing, with higher quality DRM free music.

it should be that way because some of the iTunes song are really shit quality.

I'm kind of against paying 1.29 a song. I think you should pay for your music but not that much, it'd probably be cheaper to order the cd off of Amazon or something.

Amazon and CD Stores have become my preffered music buying sources. 

They changed the prices a while ago I'm pretty sure. I think it's retarded.

The 2009 price raise was part of a change from a universal $0.99 price point to flexible pricing.  Similar price increases happened at the other two digital music stores, Wal-mart and Amazon.

These changes were not driving by retailers wanting more of your money.  Apple has long been opposed to flexible pricing.  But the music industry demanded the price flexibility in order to grant full DRM-free music.  iTunes needed that to compete with Amazon.  The music industry negotiated similar deals with other online retailers, hence the across the board change.  So it not iTunes who you should be angry with, but greedy studio executives.

In other words, keep hating in your standard directions.  Normal rational for illegal downloads still applies.  So on and so forth.

Apple just continues to drive more and more people to Amazon.

People pay money for music?

If im not mistaken, all o ftheir library became DRM free awhile ago, at least they had an ad on their store that said so, but no, i dont want to pay 1.29 for a song just because it has no DRM which never bothered me before....

Hmm, in the UK every song is 79p and every song is 100% DRM free.

Well, I am surprised people don't take advantage of this, but the LIBRARY is a great source of free music. It is legal to my knowledge and you can usually take out a shitload of CD's at one time, rip 'em, and then bring them back, free of charge. Or you can live in the stone ages like I do and buy CD's and the occasional vinyl.

Go to Half.com; buy CD used for a discount, rip files to computer, save money and own a physical disk.

Its not itunes fault that songs are 1.29 really... and it not becuase of itunes plus. Itunes' entire library is itunes plus now. The reason these songs are more is becuase the songs themselves cost itunes more to buy the liscnece to sell them, blame the band for changing extra becuase they think their better than everyone else, dont blame itunes.

Not Itunes fault. If you go look on Amazon, there are songs for 1.29 there now too. The record labels pulled a dick move a couple months ago and jacked some song prices up. Pretty ridiculous really but it wasn't really ITunes fault. Plenty of things to fault ITunes for, though I don't think this is one of 'em.