I’m with Sam’s Boys.

This doesn’t seem to go away. Now Walmart who sells CD players for under 10 bucks, wants CD’s to cost the same. Poor record companies. I feel so sorry for them…

Check out this breakdown of where the $15.99 goes:

• $0.17 Musicians’ unions
• $0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
• $0.82 Publishing royalties
• $0.80 Retail profit
• $0.90 Distribution
• $1.60 Artists’ royalties
• $1.70 Label profit
• $2.40 Marketing/promotion
• $2.91 Label overhead
• $3.89 Retail overhead