The Cost of Things

So I'm out having dinner with my Dad and we're having a chocolate brownie fudgecake explosion for dessert and he says to me, "You know, when I started working, this would have cost me a whole week's wages." And I said - "Seriously Dad? Where did you grow up that they'd charge 600 bucks for a piece of cake?" "Moreover," I continued, " who would pay 600 bucks for a piece of cake? What kind of twisted place did you grow up where they get off charging 600 bucks for a piece of cake and people bought it?" We didn't even get to how far he had to walk to school.

That got me thinking about how the price of other things had changed price wise. This week, I bought 50 recordable DVD's for $8.99 which makes each recordable DVD about 18 cents each.

When I used to buy cassettes to record tunes on, I paid $6.99 for each tape!

Each DVD can probably fit about 1,000 songs. Each cassette held maybe 20 songs. Then, in order to get 20 songs on the cassette I had to own the 20 albums, based on one really good tune on each album. I generally paid about $6.00 per album. So to put 20 really good tunes on a tape, the total cost for a compilation tape was $127!

Now, of course, sometimes I'd borrow someone else's records, but to be honest, we all owned many of the same records and recorded our own records on our tapes. Weird eh?

So now - what's the cost of making a compilation of 20 tunes on a DVD R? Well, anywhere from 18 cents if you bogart all the tunes, or $19.88 if you bought all the tunes from iTunes.

The cost of 1000 tunes on a DVD R? Maybe 18 cents - maybe a thousand bucks.

Crazy.