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One of those YMMV posts...
So I'm sorta digging iTunes. So far, it is indeed exactly $0.99 per song, and not $1.12 after tax and fees or anything hidden like that.
The selection isn't the best yet. Some of this is just due to time -- there is a lot of music in the world and they haven't encoded it all yet. Some of it is due to pretentious artists. Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers already say they will never (heh) allow their songs on iTunes because downloading singles destroys the "artistic continuity" of their albums. As if RHCP or Metallica have actually had a decent album in the last 12 years. I mean, I can see this for some albums like Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" or Fields of the Nephilim's "Elizium" in which album songs do lead into one another and tell a story from beginning to end. But artistic continuity on an album like "By The Way"? I hate the singles so much, each time one comes on, the radio dial glows red from doppler effect as I flip to another station. Evidently, Lars and Anthony don't recall 50+ years of vinyl history when 78 and 45 singles were the top selling music media.
Anyway. The selection isn't the same as Gnutella or Napster, but that's to be expected...we'll see what the future brings. I'm also noticing a difference in my music selection. With Gnutella, I don't mind downloading REO Speedwagon's "Time For Me To Fly" for the 1980s roller-rink and 8th-grade dance nostalgia of it. I might listen to it once, laugh, and there it will sit on my hard-drive, never to be played again for the next two decades. But pay $0.99 for it? I don't think so -- nostalgia doesn't pay the bills, unless your name is David Lee Roth.
24/5
So I'm sorta digging iTunes. So far, it is indeed exactly $0.99 per song, and not $1.12 after tax and fees or anything hidden like that.
The selection isn't the best yet. Some of this is just due to time -- there is a lot of music in the world and they haven't encoded it all yet. Some of it is due to pretentious artists. Metallica and The Red Hot Chili Peppers already say they will never (heh) allow their songs on iTunes because downloading singles destroys the "artistic continuity" of their albums. As if RHCP or Metallica have actually had a decent album in the last 12 years. I mean, I can see this for some albums like Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" or Fields of the Nephilim's "Elizium" in which album songs do lead into one another and tell a story from beginning to end. But artistic continuity on an album like "By The Way"? I hate the singles so much, each time one comes on, the radio dial glows red from doppler effect as I flip to another station. Evidently, Lars and Anthony don't recall 50+ years of vinyl history when 78 and 45 singles were the top selling music media.
Anyway. The selection isn't the same as Gnutella or Napster, but that's to be expected...we'll see what the future brings. I'm also noticing a difference in my music selection. With Gnutella, I don't mind downloading REO Speedwagon's "Time For Me To Fly" for the 1980s roller-rink and 8th-grade dance nostalgia of it. I might listen to it once, laugh, and there it will sit on my hard-drive, never to be played again for the next two decades. But pay $0.99 for it? I don't think so -- nostalgia doesn't pay the bills, unless your name is David Lee Roth.
24/5
