iTunes more than doubles Whitney Houston album price - Polidicks

[quote] Apple and Sony Music are being criticized after the price of one Whitney Houston album more than doubled following the singer’s tragic death. Digital Spy [URL="http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a365322/whitney-houston-death-apple-criticized-after-albums-price-boost.html"]first reported[/URL] that the price of Houston’s 2007 [I]Ultimate Collection[/I] skyrocketed from £3 ($4.70) to £7.99 ($12.60) within 30 minutes of [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/12/music-world-stunned-at-death-of-whitney-houston/"]her death on Saturday[/URL]. “To say I am angry is an understatement and I feel it is just a case of iTunes cashing in on the singer’s death, which in my opinion is totally parasitic,” one fan, who spent two hours trying to buy the album at the old price, told Digital Spy. “The album itself is great so please don’t be put off purchasing it, just [realize] that you will merely be lining some fatcat’s pocket before Whitney’s lifeless body is cold.” Regardless of price, Houston’s albums are expected to stay at the top of the charts for the next few weeks. By Monday, [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/02/whitney-houstons-death-sales-of-the-pop-stars-music-skyrocket/"]seven of her albums were on Amazon’s top ten list[/URL]. Her 1992 remake of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” was the number one single on iTunes. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” also made it on to the the top ten list. Houston died Saturday, aged 48, in a Beverly Hills hotel on the eve of the Grammys, triggering shock and a wave of tributes as music stars gathered for the annual awards show. ABC News [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/13/la-coroner-told-whitney-houstons-family-that-she-didnt-drown-report/"]reports[/URL] that Whitney Houston’s family was told by the Los Angeles coroner’s office that she didn’t drown in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, despite being found with her head submerged. Rather, they suspect that she died from a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs. Houston’s mother is said to have made arrangements to fly Houston’s body to Atlanta, perhaps as early as Tuesday, for a funeral.[/quote] [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/13/itunes-more-than-doubles-whitney-houston-album-price/[/url] It pisses me off when people milk the death of someone, whether they be famous or not.

That's disgusting.

It's a good business strategy.

Wow Can't say I'm surprised though. The demand is there, and people are willing to pay.

Yeah, that's a really low thing to do.

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inb4 loads of apple hate

Profiting from someone's death is pathetic.

Let's see how they'd like it if companies doubled the price for iPhones after Steve Jobs died.

[QUOTE=reedbo;34687634]Yeah, that's a really low thing to do.[/QUOTE] well so is making people pay at all for digital data which is in infinite supply but whatever

lol who would buy her album because she's dead anyway [i]"oh fuck, whitney houston's just died, guess this means i have to buy everything that has her name on it now!"[/i]

this is surely how you combat piracy!

[QUOTE=Gabe Newell;34687619]It's a good business strategy.[/QUOTE] Reminds me when Steve Jobs died and every vintage apple product, related to him or not, tripled in price.

This is dick. "Hmmm, should we turn the death of a celebrity into a quick million? I THINK SO."

[QUOTE=Sanius;34687652]well so is making people pay at all for digital data which is in infinite supply but whatever[/QUOTE] the only immoral part is making people pay for [i]licenses to use[/i] digital data if we owned the stuff we bought and downloaded I'd be fine with it this is why I still buy CDs *adjusts thick rimmed glasses and skinny jeans*

How is this wrong? This is what you are fucking supposed to do! Impulsive and stupid people will buy it. We don't need to cry over it.

[QUOTE=The Pretender;34687650]Profiting from someone's death is pathetic.[/QUOTE] Funerals?

[QUOTE=The golden;34687715]This is wrong, but so is buying someone's products for no other reason other than that they recently died. If you don't like their music then you won't like it now. It hasn't changed. But now that she's kicked the bucket it's suddenly OK to buy?[/QUOTE] True, but someone might not have listened to Whitney's music until after she died, and realized they like it.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34687687]the only immoral part is making people pay for [i]licenses to use[/i] digital data if we owned the stuff we bought and downloaded I'd be fine with it this is why I still buy CDs *adjusts thick rimmed glasses and skinny jeans*[/QUOTE] Still licensed. Less restrictively, and a lot harder to stop you from getting around, but it's still a licensed media.

You guys do know that itunes prices are automated to go up when the album/song is becoming popular, right?

so it was apple who killed whitney?

[QUOTE=chimitos;34688017]You guys do know that itunes prices are automated to go up when the album/song is becoming popular, right?[/QUOTE] Yes, and while that may be true, no one stepped in to say "Actually, this is wrong" and changed it And thus they continue to be assholes

They're a corporation, there's a way to make money, what are you expecting them to do?

[QUOTE=Gabe Newell;34687619]It's a good business strategy.[/QUOTE] Indeed it is, wonder if the same was done when Michael Jackson died...

It's sad the person making the music doesn't have a chance to profit from things like this.

If Apple was a cool guy, it would make her songs (or a song) free for like a few days. But apple is not a bro.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;34687999]Still licensed. Less restrictively, and a lot harder to stop you from getting around, but it's still a licensed media.[/QUOTE] I have the physical CD though, which legally offers me a whole load more protections than if I were to just get the music digitally, regardless of what the RIAA wants me to think

Oh my god demand went up so the market reacted and raised prices

[QUOTE=Snake7;34688175]It's sad the person making the music doesn't have a chance to profit from things like this.[/QUOTE] her estate will still profit

why do people get so much attention after they die. I mean, what the fuck.