{"id":184692,"date":"2012-02-13T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/they-are-a-bunch-of-fing-ghouls\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:34:00","slug":"they-are-a-bunch-of-fing-ghouls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/13\/they-are-a-bunch-of-fing-ghouls\/","title":{"rendered":"They Are A Bunch of F%$#ing Ghouls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Music, one of the slimiest record distributors out there, has just topped itself.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/13\/10394035-sony-hikes-whitney-houston-album-prices-online?chromedomain=digitallife\">raised prices on Whitney Houston&#8217;s music less than 12 hours after her death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>It&#8217;s easy to get so emotional about a singer after they&#8217;ve passed prematurely, as Whitney Houston did Saturday at the age of 48. But fans seeking to buy her digital albums in remembrance weren&#8217;t too happy at sudden price hikes so soon after her death.<\/p>\n<p>The Brits picked up on it quickly, with London-based Next Web writer Matt Brian and The Guardian&#8217;s Josh Halliday both finding the price increases, which raised Houston&#8217;s &#8220;The Ultimate Collection&#8221; 2007 album from \u00a35 (about $7.89) to \u00a38 (about $12.63). In the United States, the cost is even steeper: $15 for the &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; collection at both Amazon (mp3 store) and iTunes.  <\/p>\n<p>Halliday found out that Sony Music increased the price of &#8220;The Ultimate Collection&#8221; at about 4 a.m. Sunday, not even 12 hours after news broke of Houston&#8217;s death. Fans were quick to point fingers at Apple for the anti-sale, but it turned out that when Sony bumped up the wholesale price of &#8220;The Ultimate Collection,&#8221; iTunes and other retailers automatically upped their pricing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a fan, but sort of crap is cold.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2012\/02\/companies-raise-price-of-whitney.html\">Chris in Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Music, one of the slimiest record distributors out there, has just topped itself. It raised prices on Whitney Houston&#8217;s music less than 12 hours after her death: It&#8217;s easy to get so emotional about a singer after they&#8217;ve passed prematurely, as Whitney Houston did Saturday at the age of 48. But fans seeking to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,969,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-evil","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}