One of my local pawn shops sells DVDs cheap. I've bought movies I've seen in stores with a $50-new sticker-price for $1. (I care little for Hollywood "product," my wife is the movie-watcher.)
Buying DVD/CD movies/albums is an excellent way to stick it to Big "Music" and I highly recommend it whenever possible. You are not "hurting" the "artists" by doing this, buying DVDs/CDs new mostly benefits the movie studio/record company (the "artist" gets very little of that money, the writer(s) get a bigger pie-piece.)
Member around the time of the Napster flap, when Garth Brooks decreed that record-stores that sell "used albums" should not be allowed to stock his crappy new-at-the-time album? His claim was that sales of "used albums" were cutting into his massive wealth. (The truth was: that generic album sucked just like the rest of his generic albums, and he had alienated fans with his "Chris Gaines" attempted money-grab.) As a marketing major, he should have known how economics work: a shoddy "product" over-priced at $1 will sell better than the same shoddy "product" massively over-priced at $19.99. As a wealthy Limousine Liberal "entertainer" with a fake persona he displayed typical contempt for his audience, who he knows statistically skew to the less-affluent: his focus was on profit, not "getting his music out there." The only way he cared about his music "getting out there" was at Full Retail Price.
One of my local pawn shops sells DVDs cheap. I've bought movies I've seen in stores with a $50-new sticker-price for $1. (I care little for Hollywood "product," my wife is the movie-watcher.)
Buying DVD/CD movies/albums is an excellent way to stick it to Big "Music" and I highly recommend it whenever possible. You are not "hurting" the "artists" by doing this, buying DVDs/CDs new mostly benefits the movie studio/record company (the "artist" gets very little of that money, the writer(s) get a bigger pie-piece.)
Member around the time of the Napster flap, when Garth Brooks decreed that record-stores that sell "used albums" should not be allowed to stock his crappy new-at-the-time album? His claim was that sales of "used albums" were cutting into his massive wealth. (The truth was: that generic album sucked just like the rest of his generic albums, and he had alienated fans with his "Chris Gaines" attempted money-grab.) As a marketing major, he should have known how economics work: a shoddy "product" over-priced at $1 will sell better than the same shoddy "product" massively over-priced at $19.99. As a wealthy Limousine Liberal "entertainer" with a fake persona he displayed typical contempt for his audience, who he knows statistically skew to the less-affluent: his focus was on profit, not "getting his music out there." The only way he cared about his music "getting out there" was at Full Retail Price.