So here I am listening to Chaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams"), which is traditionally my music of choice for a snow storm. I've been ripping more of my CD collection into the iTunes music library, and I suddenly realize that I don't have a recording of Chaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 ("Polish").
So I hop on over to the iTunes Music Store and do a search on "tchaikovsky symphony polish" (they have an odd way of spelling Chaikovsky's name over there). Glancing over the results I see that they have only one recording of the Third, part of an integral set conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.
Problem is, they don't sell the symphonies separately. If I want to buy the Third Symphony, I have to get the whole set, for 70 bucks!
This is so stupid on so many levels, I find myself at a loss for words.
Note: This is not a stupidity on Apple's part; the prices and policies for the sale of music are set by the recording companies, in this case RCA (or whatever RCA has become these days).
Posted by jt at January 22, 2005 12:25 PM