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Title: Most expensive colleges
Post by: Gregg on February 05, 2008, 08:44:08 PM

Forbes article draws an interesting analogy...

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At the same time tuition has been soaring, technology-driven product improvements have made things not only better, but cheaper. Take Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record. And that's without factoring in the huge quality improvements that have removed the snap, crackle and pop noise featured as regular background fare on vinyl records.

Those were the days when I was buying 45's. Well, maybe a few years before that...
75% less! You can get music through iTunes "for a song".

Title: Most expensive colleges
Post by: krissel on February 06, 2008, 02:26:23 AM

What kids today don't appreciate is how clear the words are to the songs. To this day I am surprised by what the lyrics actually are to some of the songs from "our era". The radio and 45s were so scratchy it was hard to understand what they were saying.

Although you probably don't want to hear the words they put in present day songs.  

Title: Most expensive colleges
Post by: Gregg on February 06, 2008, 08:45:51 AM

Yeah krissel, isn't it ironic?