Stephen Green has an interesting little game – fire up your music collection and hit shuffle, then see what the ten first songs are. Well, I’ve nothing better to do, so here’s whatever iTunes happens to cough up…
“Thunderball” from The Best of Bond
“Youkali” – Patricia O’Callaghan
“My Way” – Frank Sinatra
“The Smokey Life” – Patricia O’Callaghan
“Silk Road” from “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” soundtrack – Tan Dun and Yo-Yo Ma
“The Taming of Sméagol” – from “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” soundtrack – Howard Shore
“Wintersun (Bobby D’Ambrosio Mix)” – Bond
“Sunrise” – Norah Jones
“White Flag” – Dido
“Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings, and Continuo in D minor – 1. Vivace” – J.S. Bach – Hillary Hahn
I seem to have a large number of soundtracks in my library… also, my tastes in music are less eclectic than schitzophrenic…
How many of those tracks came from CD’s you own? Just curious.
In this case, all of them. (Well, except for the Dido track, that I bought from iTunes). Most of the stuff I listen to is too esoteric to be found online…
Personally, I find it much easier to just go through iTunes and find a song than try to use some bloody P2P app or some web search. iTunes is cheap and flexible enough that the $0.99 per song is less than the time and effort I’d waste looking for a song.
yeah right: you can set up a blog, but you are not able to download a song from a P2P application…Only Blair would believe that!!
moreover, 0.99$ is nothing (1 dollar is already half a beer) for an american with a decent salary. what about an indonesian farmer earning 3.5$/month? He doesn’t have the right to access culture?
Vincent, that is about the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen posted here.
I do think you wrote something dumber when you blamed O’Neil for many things, but it turned out it was Bush, and not O’Neil in the article…This was a summit of stupidity.
But maybe you can explain what is so dumb in my post?
-setting a blog is so easy it’s not comparable with the complex operation of putting the name of a song in a box, click on search, double-click on one of the result, wait a few minutes (you don’t have to stare) and listen to it?
-The comment on blair was only supposed to be funny. I still like it.
-indonesian farmers don’t have the internet? They can. Why not? There are some programs of the UN providing computers to villages in Africa for free…these people actually learn how to use it fast, and then do it intensely. Maybe some other examples are more relevant to you, but I kinda like this one.
But go ahead, teach me, master of cleverness who is opposed to social changes!!!
and BTW, just in order to put your “esoteric” taste in music where it belongs, absolutely all the songs you listed here are available on a P2P network. Just a random customer with average music tastes.
Um, Vincent, just about everything is available on a P2P network if you look hard enough.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say SHUT UP or MAKE SENSE.
I don’t understand the issue here, Vince. A) I’ve got the money to pay a dollar for a song. B) It’s easier to snag ’em off iTunes than to sift through P2P, and the downloads are faster. C) I’m not screwing somebody out of money. Not my biggest concern, of course, but the clear conscience is nice.
Indonesian farmers can use P2P if they want; I think it’s going to be too hard for most of them, actually. Hell, if they don’t want to pay a dollar for a song they can go buy the entire CD for a dollar from some street vendor-pirate.
What’s the discussion here? A dollar a song is a reasonable price point for Americans, anyway.
I use to consider the internet as a GLOBAL medium. Maybe you don’t. Just so that you know, the quarter of the population of the earth doesn’t have a dollar (or its equivalent) in his pocket.
Right, but those people don’t use the American version of iTunes, do they? They use the version for their language and economy, with their own price points.
Just so that you know, the quarter of the population of the earth doesn’t have a dollar (or its equivalent) in his pocket.
And the folks that pick coffee beans in Guatamala can’t afford a cappuchino at Starbucks. Hell, neither can I. Why don’t you go bother them for a while?