$9.99 for a new CD release, yes it has happened

Will he sell at the inflated price until his inventory runs out?

about time

the cost to reproduce versus selling cost has never been worse than the cd market - shame on them
unfortunately its the record company making the big bucks
putting out crap product and blaiming it all on the music public "burning" everything.
my daughter is part of the problem (no - it's simple economics she can't fork out $18 for music so she goes to mp3s - plus her attention span is only 2 months of burnout on anything she listens to)

sorry Charles, I buy plenty of music - but I really have to dig these days for any new quality product
(the bands exist - they just don't push the ones with talent and potential)

but now that I have a fancy Nottingham turntable
I'm mostly kissing the huge markup on cds a big and cold goodby

can't get that vpi cleaner fast enough

Lugnut, in talking to a Sam Goody store manager this weekend (we've been friends for years), she confirms what you have said, plus the contract for Universal also demands free storefront advertising. Innocent and unaware me didn't know that all those displays up front are paid for by the big music companies; I thought they were made by the parent company/owner. In order to get the reduced CD wholesale price, stores must also lose advertising dollars as well. And if they don't sign the contract, we music buying people still want the cheaper list price, reducing store margin.

That's a pretty sick game they are playing...

not bad