...they are becoming too expensive, for me. Case in point: The new Snarky Puppy album, Immigrance came out yesterday. Now, I like album artwork, liner notes, other bits of info or extras you can get with physical product, as many others do on this site. But, especially living in Canada, with exchange rates, and increased postage costs being less than optimal, this is what usually happens. I go to the web site. The CD is listed at $11.99. So far so good. Now convert that to Canadian dollars. Now I'm up to $16 dollars. Still not too bad. Then comes the kicker. Postage is over $10. Convert that to Canadian and add it to the price, and whatever taxes are involved, and suddenly I am up to around $33!
Suddenly, that $11.99 doesn't seem so good. This is why I have switched almost exclusively to bandcamp downloads. The only exception would be, if a band is touring with their new CD in tow. If I can buy direct from the band, it is much cheaper and I can support them in person, and put money in their hands.
Anyone else have a similar story?
neil
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