The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music prize: more exciting than the Mercury

Who cares about jazz-folk concept albums when you can argue over Girls Aloud and Olly Murs? Popjustice's Peter Robinson on why he started a pop alternative to the Mercury prizeWhat price would you put on a decent album? When I started buying LPs they were £7. CDs put the price up to around £11, then supermarkets stormed in and dictated that CDs should be more like £8. In 2012, iTunes has decided that an album should usually be £7.99. Inflation confuses things slightly, but something about th...

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