The RIAA is so greedy, it makes me sick. With the huge success of online music stores, specifically iTunes, they keep wanting to make more money off of it. First, they just flat out asked for more money. Steve Jobs said ‘Go suck your toes, idiots’. And apparently, they did, because their latest scheme is even raunchier. They want variable rate pricing. If a song sells more, it costs more. If it doesn’t sell so much, it costs less. Not only is this greedy, it’s completely backwards. If you go to a music store to buy something that is rare, imported, or a niche artist, it will usually cost more money. The more popular bands usually have cheaper prices, due to discounts and such. Not that I would be a fan of reversing the scheme either. It’s just dumb, either way. There is no way to guage what will sell better, until it actually sells. So then prices go up, and if you buy it right away, you get it cheap, but if you wait a couple days, you get ripped off. Will the price drop again, in proportion to declining sales? The price would be going up and down constantly. It all just goes to show you that the music industry values money more than anything else (even good plain logic).