red5's Journal: This is historic

I'm listening to Morcheeba - Charango on my dad's stereo. How is this historic you ask? Well I downloaded all the tracks off the net, burned them to CD-R and it's all legal. It cost me a tenner and I probably could have found the used CD cheeper. I would've had to get off my lazy ass and I doubt I would have found those MassiveAttack remixes for under 5 dollars. So I guess it's a wash.

I really like the design of the apple music store ( their selection leaves a little to be desired though ). It's really easy to use, my mom could do this, probably my dad too. I'm beginning to think it's the whole reason they made safari, and the browser was just an afterthought.

On the other hand 99 a song and $9.99 is a little steep for just a download. These days you can buy a CD for close to that price. Yes I'm willing to pay for downloads but packaging + media adds value.

Of course there are what I like to call the counter revolutionaries. Dirty Vegas won't let you buy Days Go By (their one hit) without buying the rest of their rather mediocre albums. They will however let you pay 99 any of the other songs on their albums. They also renamed the acoustic mix to "Untitled (Bonus Track 1)" and upped their price for the album to 12 bucks. Audioslave won't give you a break on the album. They'll only let you buy it a track at a time. I'm noticing a lot more of this as I look deeper it's really annoying. I wonder what happens to the poor sot that buys a few of a bands filler tracks and then later decides he want's the hit song too. Do they charge him twice for the songs he bough already? Do they have him pay the difference? I'll try not going to find out the hard way.