If you spend $50k on a car, should you then not be upset if the price of gas goes up by a nickel? The difference, I think, is that with gas, cd's etc, are items which have to be purchased in order for your toys to work. Therefore you feel that you're being taken advantange of if the prices are (or seem) inflated. A very justifiable complaint. If you can afford $50k cars or speakers or amps etc, and you feel it's worth the money - you are paying for quality, performance, durability whatever. But when you're forced to pay inflated prices, it just doesn't sit well.
A Little Hypocrisy?
How would you respond to the record company exec who say -
"I look on the Audiogon web site and I see people buying and selling $5,000 cd players, $10,000 speakers, even cables and wires for several hundred dollars per linear foot. Nobody complains about those kind of prices. Yet you complain about cd's costing fifteen to twenty bucks. What gives?"
I include myself in for this criticism, but I'd be fascinated to hear how anyone else would respond to this.
"I look on the Audiogon web site and I see people buying and selling $5,000 cd players, $10,000 speakers, even cables and wires for several hundred dollars per linear foot. Nobody complains about those kind of prices. Yet you complain about cd's costing fifteen to twenty bucks. What gives?"
I include myself in for this criticism, but I'd be fascinated to hear how anyone else would respond to this.