Thinkng about this again, someone below said '£12 for an hour's music aint bad' Well, is it really? I go to see various folk gigs with guest artists, average ticket price I reckon is about £6. for that you usually get a good hour at least or more and a dozen or more songs/tunes, most if you've bought a ticket you'll want to hear, plus it's 'live' and you'll usually see and hear support acts. All for £6 ish. And a lot of these artistes will have albums for sale at the £12 level. So why is an hour of CD recorded music, often with new tracks you might not like, costing twice as much as the live gig?

Also I think too many big name artistes are too content to flog their wares at over inflated prices, rather than go for volume sales at half the price and probably gain many new fans. I mean on the Pop and Rock scene acts are getting Gold discs for a volume of sales that wouldn't have got them in the top 50 in the 60's