Frankly, I like itunes. For me it ends up being pretty cheap since I get to hit up a lot of oldies for a few bucks now and then, and syncing them to the ipod is a no-brainer. That, paired up with yahoo music @ $5.00/month for stuff I just want to listen to once was enough for me...
The thing is, I have agreed with most of you that these mediums are flawed, all the while letting them catter to my lazyness.
Now I am not going to say that magnatune is the solution to every problem, but I just wanted to express how comforting it is to see something like this emerge.
While I only seem to like the jazz on the site, it's nice to see the potential that has been realized via the Creative Commons license.
While the whole "give three copies away" thing might doom them, the idea is quite innocent and seeign how it plays out will be interesting...
the premise:
you can listen to everythign on the site for free@ probably 128kbps, and then purchase the albumn for whatever price you feel is appropriate, from $5-18, or you can choose only a download. I thought it was neat that they let you have the downloaded version right after you buy the CD so you ddon't ahve to wait.
..and of all ways to discover something, I discovered it after verizon had throttled my ev-do bandwidth on my phone, I settled for surfing /., and there was this shill-sounding post all the way down there that no one had buried, on whose link I clicked....
Don't get me wrong, I am no shill. I have just settled for itunes, yahoo, and allofmp3 in the past, frankly, out of lethargy. itunes has led me to soem great tracks, but I find myself buy crap off of p.b.s, and, yes, even Prairie Home Companion They had this ragtime pianist that I thought was awesome
Unless this thing takes off, it probably might not have much of a future, but until then, if ever, its nice to see that someone has made what we all want....
<--gettign old
the /. psot:
edit: I jsut bought an album, so the first three people to ask get a free copy in FLAC
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/ehren-lines/ that's teh album
The thing is, I have agreed with most of you that these mediums are flawed, all the while letting them catter to my lazyness.
Now I am not going to say that magnatune is the solution to every problem, but I just wanted to express how comforting it is to see something like this emerge.
While I only seem to like the jazz on the site, it's nice to see the potential that has been realized via the Creative Commons license.
While the whole "give three copies away" thing might doom them, the idea is quite innocent and seeign how it plays out will be interesting...
the premise:
you can listen to everythign on the site for free@ probably 128kbps, and then purchase the albumn for whatever price you feel is appropriate, from $5-18, or you can choose only a download. I thought it was neat that they let you have the downloaded version right after you buy the CD so you ddon't ahve to wait.
..and of all ways to discover something, I discovered it after verizon had throttled my ev-do bandwidth on my phone, I settled for surfing /., and there was this shill-sounding post all the way down there that no one had buried, on whose link I clicked....
Don't get me wrong, I am no shill. I have just settled for itunes, yahoo, and allofmp3 in the past, frankly, out of lethargy. itunes has led me to soem great tracks, but I find myself buy crap off of p.b.s, and, yes, even Prairie Home Companion
They had this ragtime pianist that I thought was awesomeUnless this thing takes off, it probably might not have much of a future, but until then, if ever, its nice to see that someone has made what we all want....
<--gettign old
the /. psot:
edit: I jsut bought an album, so the first three people to ask get a free copy in FLAC
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/ehren-lines/ that's teh album
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