Another thing is that back in the days, most people bought tapes instead of cds. Tapes were a lot more affordable. Plus you couldn't flat out skip a track with a tape (you could fast forward though), so they had to make sure every song was worth listening too. Albums were shorter, but higher quality. Cassettes were the shit. Nowadays there's so many half ass albums with just 2-3 good songs, fuck paying $15-16 for that. If they could sell all cds for 9.99 all the time and focus more on quality albums, I do think sales would go up a lot, even if it wouldn't kill bootlegging & downloading. It's not the stores' fault though, it goes back to the labels.