# Jukebox: $1.00 per song?  Are you fucking HIGH??

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-1-00-per-song-are-you-fucking-high/557021 "2010-10-13T16:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-1-00-per-song-are-you-fucking-high/557021/41 "2010-10-14T16:35:42Z")

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Back in the good old days of the Industrial Revolution, we had feeble-minded old Rufus around to play his fiddle while we ate, and it didn’t cost us _shit_.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-1-00-per-song-are-you-fucking-high/557021/42 "2010-10-14T19:43:09Z")

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> [@fuzzypickles](#):
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> and that’s when I bothered to look at the display telling me the price

You _guuuuuuuuuuys_, reading is _haaaaaaaaaaaaaard_.

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**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-1-00-per-song-are-you-fucking-high/557021/43 "2010-10-15T12:14:55Z")

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> [@El\_Presidente](#):
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> Now let me get this straight. Someone had mistakenly left 7 unused credits on the machine, which you cheerfully used, but your still whining about paying $1.00 per song??? How is that a bad deal for you?

Well, mainly I’m pissed because I used up all the free credits on AC/DC before discovering much better songs in the playlist. Didn’t mention this in the OP, but after discovering how much it really coast, I _did_ spend $7.00 to listen to nearly the entire _Heaven and Hell_ album by Black Sabbath. (It was my personal tribute to the late, great Ronnie James Dio – for any other artist, I wouldn’t have spent a dime, but for Ronnie it was worth it.)

> [@El\_Presidente](#):
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> 12 credits for $5 is a pretty fair deal, based on inflation, btw.

Not when you compare the jukebox price to the cost of buying music in a store! Back in the day when the jukebox only cost a quarter, a 45rpm single would cost you $3.00, while a full LP record was $7.99 or more. Even today, the standard CD price has remained static for years ($13-20), and you can download full albums for around eight bucks or individual songs for only 99 cents. Compare THAT to spending $1.50 just to hear your favorite song in a bar – it’s highway robbery!

Also, what’s the profit ratio on these machines? They must be much cheaper to maintain than jukeboxes of yore, since there are no moving parts to break, and since all the music is digital, the records never skip…

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