Virgin, HMV download war
p2p news / p2pnet:- You have to laugh.
Big Music’s pushers are still trying to muscle each other out of the non-existent corporate online music market.
Over in the UK, HMV and Virgin are to open their very own download services with Virgin trying to get one over HMV by launching its Virgin Digital service today.
HMV’s come-back?
Declare a “download price war with 39p (about 77 cents) tracks,” as The Scotsman puts it.
Some war. The only troops on the battlefield are all on the same side, and they’re all shooting blanks.
You have to laugh.
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See:-
very own – HMV, Virgin, music downloads, August 31, 2005
The Scotsman – HMV declares download price war with 39p tracks , September 2, 2005
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:39 pm
The funniest bits in the PR are where they try and justify their tracks not working on Ipods. Or pretty much any personal music player seeing as “Plays for Sure” hasn’t exactly taken the market by storm.
I’ll try and find a link.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Can’t say I shop in either of them!
Music Zone is so much better and cheaper (in some cases £12/£13 cheaper for an album), yet people go to HMV, as for Virgin, blah, they aren’t even worth mentioning, their music catalogue is dreadful in their stores!
September 4th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
I have to stop deleting my cookies….