Music Made Right
I can’t even tell you how glad I am that I got the Apple Powerbook. Watching first hand Apple’s new Music store unfold is witnessing a revolution in the making.
Sure, we were intrigued by Napster and then Kazaa. But those were underground technologies that had spawned the illegal swapping of music. We all agree that music artists deserve to earn a decent living.
My main argument and gripe with the music industry has always been the coercion laid upon consumers to purchase an entire album. It is hard enough to make one good song, let alone a dozen. That just didn’t justify my buying of CDs and I often walked away a peeved customer. In my spare time I’ve even drawn up plans for a vending machine that burned CDs containing only the songs you want and charging per song.
Apple did it with the new music store. Sure, 99 cents per song may be a tad heavy, but it beats having to buy a 20 dollar CD anytime. I hope the price falls, and we can resume Napteresque download habits without infringing upon the rights of music artists to their gargantuan profits.
Can’t get into the music store? Heh…get a Mac.
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Hey, I just read about this in paper this morning. I usually don't download music from the internet, but I like so much the simplicity of Mac's operation that I may start doing so. I feel that people should pay to download music, but the industry is going to have to realize that it can't always get the lion's share of the profits off of artists. The industry complains about how they're being ripped off by people who steal music, but they don't want to admitt that they're ripping off consumers with high prices for CDs.
yo yo, NY is really cool but I live about an hour and half away so I'm not quite sure how the weather is there. I know in the city, it's usually a bit colder than it is here in philadelphia (and it's hitting around 70 degrees here). But lighting should be as good as it can get in a city environment. good luck and lemmie know how it goes!