From an advertisement in today’s New York Times:
Squeaking by on a 4000% mark-up
“Somewhere in Malibu, a music exec lies on his $7000 Mies Van Der Rohe daybed, whimpering because album sales are down. A CD costs roughly 40¢ to produce and package, and despite charging twenty bucks for it, he’s losing his Commes Des Garcons shirt. Premature releases featuring one good song plus forty minutes to forget won’t garner much sympathy. Won’t fill that six car garage either. Maybe you should charge more. No wait, you already tried that.”
“Rolling Stone”
This ad appears in today’s New York Times “Business Day” section. On October 29th, Rolling Stone purchased a similarly stinging ad critical of the record industry.
