40 minutes, 19 seconds

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Should a CD that runs only 40 minutes sell for the same price as one that runs 70 minutes? It's 30 minutes less music. I mean, often visual artists sell their smaller paintings for less than their larger works. Ditto for sculptors. And, yes, you could argue that painters and sculptors spend more on materials when they create a larger-scale work, whereas a CD is a CD--costs the same to manufacture whether it's 70 minutes or 40 minutes long.

But surely songwriting time, rehearsal time, and studio time cost more for 70 minutes' worth of music than for 40 minutes' worth. Yet that cost isn't reflected anywhere in the price of the CD.

I'm just saying.

Also today:

40:19 Dead Man's Hill, We Will Live for Eternity
40:19 Pinknruby, Garden
40:15 Arcana, The New Light
40:14 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Children of Nature
40:13 Various artists, Scontrum, Act VI
40:12 Einstürzende Neubauten, Strategies Against Architecture II (CD 1 of 2)
40:12 Pinknruby, The Vast Astonishment
40:11 Mediæval Bæbes, Worldes Blysse
40:10 Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque
40:09 Fortdax, Divers
40:08 Speaking Silence, Speaking in Silence
40:06 Splatter Squall, The Spell
40:04 Tor Lundvall, Empty City