From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #565 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 8 2008 Volume 16 : Number 565 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: starfucking ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: starfucking [Christopher Gross ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: starfucking [Tom Clark ] Re: starfucking ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: starfucking [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Maui ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness [2fs ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Maui ["(0% rh)" ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Maui [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Maui [Steve Schiavo ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness [Benjamin Lukoff ] RE: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["Bachman, Michael" ] Lowe/Hitchcock Show? Anyone going? ["m swedene" ] life after tangible music objects [Dolph Chaney ] Re: life after tangible music objects [2fs ] Re: life after tangible music objects [Rex ] Re: life after tangible music objects [Dolph Chaney ] Re: life after tangible music objects [2fs ] Re: life after tangible music objects [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:47:38 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Except Cindy wasn't on Good Stuff, so The B-52's don't actually > qualify. Not that anyone (understandably) really wants to acknowledge > that turd's existance. Shit. Forgot about that. She does get a tiny name check, but I guess that doesn't count. Hey, I *like* Good Stuff. I even like the almost-universally reviled Bouncing Off The Satellites, and also Mesopotamia. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:50:21 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: starfucking I saw David Suzuki last week, but you probably don't know who that is. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:56:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: starfucking On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I saw David Suzuki last week, but you probably don't know who that is. I do! I work in the same building as Amitai Etzioni, and held an elevator door for him just last Friday. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:57:44 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness 2fs wrote: > > That is, I don't want merely to be able to submit a correct > description ... > I want to be able to remove the incorrect info from circulation. You can certainly do this with Freedb - just submit revised CD details with a higher Revision number than the one that's there - the old one is gone. Some freedb-aware tools don't know about revisions, so please adjust your set. Musicbrainz sort-of does this, but if you get a numbnuts editor looking at your work, they may not accept it. Of course, the idea that one is more correct than the masses is a very elitist and exclusionary concept ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:21:25 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: starfucking On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I saw David Suzuki last week, but you probably don't know who that is. > Give us some credit! Advance starfucking: I'm having beers with Rev. Chris Hintz, Nick Winkworth, Russ Reynolds and possibly Mark Gloster tomorrow. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:02:25 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: starfucking On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > I saw David Suzuki last week, but you probably don't know who that is. > > I do! > > I work in the same building as Amitai Etzioni, and held an elevator door > for him just last Friday. > I was just giong to ask whether he was related to Joe Isuzu, but I doubt anybody remembers him anyway. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:01:49 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: starfucking On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:56 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > I work in the same building as Amitai Etzioni, and held an elevator > door > for him just last Friday. Good thing too, lest you get a little lecture on civic responsibility. - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:08:59 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Maui > When I was 19 I moved to Hawaii - first to Oahu and the next year to Maui. > Lived between the 2 for roughly 18 months. On Oahu I lived in the yacht > harbor in Honolulu and taught sailing, but on Maui I got a job in a tourist > bar in Lahaina - nightly music shows and tiki drinks. To this day I can't > drink rum. Anyway, most of the tourists were from the midwest - Kansas, > Oklahoma, Illinois, those states. They used to ask me why I moved to Hawaii > and being a native Southern Californian, my answer was simple: "more sun, > bigger waves." > > btw - there is a huge connection between Alaska and Mauii. Half the bar > owners on Maui also own bars in Alaska it seems. > It's a favorite vacation destination for Washingtonians too. Never really appealed to me; a place with 112% humidity and giant flying cockroaches strikes me as somewhere to be rigorously avoided. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:10:12 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > > Except Cindy wasn't on Good Stuff, so The B-52's don't actually > > qualify. Not that anyone (understandably) really wants to acknowledge > > that turd's existance. > > > > Shit. Forgot about that. She does get a tiny name check, but I guess that > doesn't count. > > Hey, I *like* Good Stuff. I even like the almost-universally reviled > Bouncing Off The Satellites, and also Mesopotamia. > I think they're calling it "Iraq," these days. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:17:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness On 4/7/08, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > > > > That is, I don't want merely to be able to submit a correct > > description ... > > I want to be able to remove the incorrect info from circulation. > > > > You can certainly do this with Freedb - just submit revised CD details > with a higher Revision number than the one that's there - the old one is > gone. Some freedb-aware tools don't know about revisions, so please adjust > your set. > > Musicbrainz sort-of does this, but if you get a numbnuts editor looking at > your work, they may not accept it. > > Of course, the idea that one is more correct than the masses is a very > elitist and exclusionary concept ... *I'm* not more correct than the masses - either English grammar is, or the actual credits on the CD are. I'm not making anything up at all! I was digging around Musicbrainz some time ago and came across this completely anal section on whether band names should have "the" in them, as well as a debate about lower-casing, etc. Interesting, I guess. Or not. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:30:29 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness > I was digging around Musicbrainz some time ago and came across this > completely anal section on whether band names should have "the" in them, > as > well as a debate about lower-casing, etc. Interesting, I guess. Or not. > Jeeziz, I can remember listening to nitwits having that argument when I was in high school I'da thought some kind of consensus would have been reached in the last forty years...plus ca change, huh? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:45:05 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Maui Carrie says: > ps: Starfucking moment: I was in a juice bar in Honolulu when I met Dr. > Bronner - you know, the All-In-One-God-Faith Peppermint soap dude! that is seriously the coolest brush-with-greatness i've ever heard. xo lauren p.s. in high-school, my friend ben's family always had dr. bronner's soap (in the quart bottle, and the gallon refill was always nearby.) i had a bit of a fascination with it since i couldn't easily pigeonhole it - the instructions/slogans seemed like some weird mixture of communism and religious fanaticism. i liked to read all the various uses; i especially liked the ones that were low on the list like washing your teeth and using it as a deodorant. p.p.s. DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:02:14 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness Mp3Tag (a free program) allows you to access Amazon's database; which, i presume, is accurate. download Exact Audio Copy (a free program), set it to "secure" mode, make sure the "skip track extraction" boxes are un-checked, make sure to let it cool down your drive every once in a while, and let it rip. then go to bed. if it's still ripping when you get up, let it keep ripping...and go to work. by the time you get home from work, it *should* be finished. if so, *make sure you torrent it or upload it to usenet*. the rarities need to be put back into circulation!! give back to the community, dude. *this can't be stressed enough*: share it, share it, motherfucking share it. (but, er, before you go to all the trouble, you might want to check to make sure it's not already floating around out there.) uhm...oh yeah! it puts the lotion in the basket... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:02:14 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness Mp3Tag (a free program) allows you to access Amazon's database; which, i presume, is accurate. download Exact Audio Copy (a free program), set it to "secure" mode, make sure the "skip track extraction" boxes are un-checked, make sure to let it cool down your drive every once in a while, and let it rip. then go to bed. if it's still ripping when you get up, let it keep ripping...and go to work. by the time you get home from work, it *should* be finished. if so, *make sure you torrent it or upload it to usenet*. the rarities need to be put back into circulation!! give back to the community, dude. *this can't be stressed enough*: share it, share it, motherfucking share it. (but, er, before you go to all the trouble, you might want to check to make sure it's not already floating around out there.) uhm...oh yeah! it puts the lotion in the basket... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:37:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, kevin studyvin wrote: > > I was digging around Musicbrainz some time ago and came across this > > completely anal section on whether band names should have "the" in them, > > as > > well as a debate about lower-casing, etc. Interesting, I guess. Or not. > > > > Jeeziz, I can remember listening to nitwits having that argument when I was > in high school I'da thought some kind of consensus would have been reached > in the last forty years...plus ca change, huh? You wouldn't believe the fighting on the Wikipedia Beatles WikiProject about this. One faction insisted that it always be "The Beatles," no matter in what context, e.g., "Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best in The Beatles in 1962"; the other (mine) said no, the "t" should be down. My side was basically winning until we realized it was all a giant waste of time and started doing other stuff, so I think the capitalizers have won. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:39:46 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Maui He invited me to dinner in Escondido if I was ever in the neighborhood. I was seriously impressed. - - c On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:45 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > Carrie says: >> ps: Starfucking moment: I was in a juice bar in Honolulu when I >> met Dr. >> Bronner - you know, the All-In-One-God-Faith Peppermint soap dude! > > that is seriously the coolest brush-with-greatness i've ever heard. > > xo > lauren > > p.s. in high-school, my friend ben's family always had dr. bronner's > soap (in the quart bottle, and the gallon refill was always nearby.) > i had a bit of a fascination with it since i couldn't easily > pigeonhole it - the instructions/slogans seemed like some weird > mixture of communism and religious fanaticism. i liked to read all > the various uses; i especially liked the ones that were low on the > list like washing your teeth and using it as a deodorant. > > p.p.s. DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the > buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:48:28 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Maui On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:45 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > p.s. in high-school, my friend ben's family always had dr. bronner's > soap (in the quart bottle, and the gallon refill was always nearby.) > i had a bit of a fascination with it since i couldn't easily > pigeonhole it - the instructions/slogans seemed like some weird > mixture of communism and religious fanaticism. i liked to read all > the various uses; i especially liked the ones that were low on the > list like washing your teeth and using it as a deodorant. The Pope of Soap. - - Steve _______________ Consciousness occurs at the fundamental level of Planck scale geometry, normally in and around microtubules between our ears. But when brain coherence is lost, quantum information related to consciousness and the unconscious mind remain in the universe, distributed but still entangled. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:47:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Stacked Crooked wrote: > you to submit changes ("Send track names to iTunes", or similar), but I > haven't seen any changes reflect back in the database.> > > Mp3Tag (a free program) allows you to access Amazon's database; which, i > presume, is accurate. You'd presume that why? ;) Seriously, though, I think they get their info from a variety of sources, and I wouldn't necessarily consider it definitive. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:32:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:10 AM To: Stewart C. Russell Cc: Vanished Like The Trilobite Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > > > >Except Cindy wasn't on Good Stuff, so The B-52's don't actually > > >qualify. Not that anyone (understandably) really wants to > > >acknowledge that turd's existance. > > > > > > >Shit. Forgot about that. She does get a tiny name check, but I guess > >that doesn't count. > > > >Hey, I *like* Good Stuff. I even like the almost-universally reviled > >Bouncing Off The Satellites, and also Mesopotamia. > > >I think they're calling it "Iraq," these days. Count me in as a fan of the B-52's Mesopotamia as well. I saw them in Detroit during their 1982 Mesopotamia tour and even bought a tour tee shirt. One of the most enjoyable concerts I've ever attended, although I thought the balcony was going to fall due everyone dancing their butts off! Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:25:35 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: starfucking Speaking of elevator doors - I almost knocked over Stone Phillips while exiting the elevator tonight. He lives in the same building where I work, and is (apparently) one of those people who stand in front of elevator/subway car doors while people try to exit. Extremely annoying. And occasionally, when I used to take a smoke breaks downstairs in front of the office, I'd see Lucy Liu sauntering up and down 19th St. walking her brown lab. - -Steve, smoke-free 7 months now On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> I saw David Suzuki last week, but you probably don't know who that >> is. > > I do! > > I work in the same building as Amitai Etzioni, and held an elevator > door > for him just last Friday. - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:06:43 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Lowe/Hitchcock Show? Anyone going? Any fellow fegs hitting this up tomorrow? My wife, friend and I will be there if anyone wants to meet up before hand. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Dolph Chaney Subject: life after tangible music objects Hi all: After releasing my new album last month as download-only, I've been thinking a lot about what pleasurable parts of the music-buying experience are left out of this kind of business. For me, a lot of it is just the lack of a tangible object to look at, read, display, and engage the other senses while listening to this particular music. It's an e-mail instead of a card or letter, with all the same advantages and disadvantages re being convenient but impersonal. The lack of a tangible object, of course, is a lot of the appeal as well -- a tangible object = an object that has to be stored somewhere. But it's not the same. And how can that gap be filled? In my case, I've been considering creating some kind of double-sided poster or lightweight book to send out, with lyrics, artwork, in-jokes, and other things that would enhance the experience for the listener. I haven't yet found a printing house who's already thought of exactly what I'm imagining. I suppose it's not that different from what's sometimes included in a tour program, though I'm picturing something LP-sized or larger rather than letter-sized. As people who love music and who've bought download-only releases -- or who haven't precisely because of this issue -- what kinds of things would you like to receive as supplements to a download release? - -- Dolph operational: embryonic: - --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:29:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > Hi all: > > After releasing my new album last month as download-only, I've been > thinking a lot about what pleasurable parts of the music-buying experience > are left out of this kind of business. For me, a lot of it is just the lack > of a tangible object to look at, read, display, and engage the other senses > while listening to this particular music. It's an e-mail instead of a card > or letter, with all the same advantages and disadvantages re being > convenient but impersonal. The lack of a tangible object, of course, is a > lot of the appeal as well -- a tangible object = an object that has to be > stored somewhere. But it's not the same. And how can that gap be filled? > > In my case, I've been considering creating some kind of double-sided > poster or lightweight book to send out, with lyrics, artwork, in-jokes, and > other things that would enhance the experience for the listener. I haven't > yet found a printing house who's already thought of exactly what I'm > imagining. I suppose it's not that different from what's sometimes included > in a tour program, though I'm picturing something LP-sized or larger rather > than letter-sized. > > As people who love music and who've bought download-only releases -- or > who haven't precisely because of this issue -- what kinds of things would > you like to receive as supplements to a download release? While I see the point you're making and appreciate it, aren't you engaging in wheel reinventing? I mean, if people want a physical object that goes with their music, why wouldn't they just buy a CD/CDR? Those come with packaging generally... For myself, I find that booklets, posters, etc. rarely get used or looked at, simply because their irregularity of size means I have no regular or expected place to store them, so they get filed away wherever I can find room, often in amongst my books. And that means I don't often look at them in the way I'd interact with CD packaging, even in the most cursory fashion of just looking at the front or back cover. While we're at it: another peeve. CDs whose packaging doesn't list the tracks on the back cover, forcing me to pull out the booklet to find out what track is playing. The new American Music Club is worse: no track listing per se, just the lyrics, in order. It's enough to make a guy transfer his whole music collection to iTunes and just listen to it that way ;-) > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:12:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > As people who love music and who've bought download-only releases -- or > who haven't precisely because of this issue -- what kinds of things would > you like to receive as supplements to a download release? > The "buy download and get vinyl" model (Elvis C. among others) had me wondering just how many of those vinyl records ever get played, or even have the shrinkwrap cracked... which led to my inevitable scheme to just print up LP jackets, and stuff random used LP's from the thrift store inside them. It could be kinda cool, even if advertised as such... you'd have to be a little curious as to what used LP was in your jacket. Sheena Easton? Herp Alpert? Big Black? Is your curiosity strong enough to make you actually apply fingernail to shrinkwrap? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects I think that's a really fun idea! Rex wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: As people who love music and who've bought download-only releases -- or who haven't precisely because of this issue -- what kinds of things would you like to receive as supplements to a download release? The "buy download and get vinyl" model (Elvis C. among others) had me wondering just how many of those vinyl records ever get played, or even have the shrinkwrap cracked... which led to my inevitable scheme to just print up LP jackets, and stuff random used LP's from the thrift store inside them. It could be kinda cool, even if advertised as such... you'd have to be a little curious as to what used LP was in your jacket. Sheena Easton? Herp Alpert? Big Black? Is your curiosity strong enough to make you actually apply fingernail to shrinkwrap? -Rex - --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:25:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > I think that's a really fun idea! And if you really did get that "Herp" (etologist?) Alpert album... score. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:38:02 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Rex wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > > > > As people who love music and who've bought download-only releases -- or > > who haven't precisely because of this issue -- what kinds of things > would > > you like to receive as supplements to a download release? > > > The "buy download and get vinyl" model (Elvis C. among others) had me > wondering just how many of those vinyl records ever get played, or even > have > the shrinkwrap cracked... which led to my inevitable scheme to just print > up > LP jackets, and stuff random used LP's from the thrift store inside them. > It could be kinda cool, even if advertised as such... you'd have to be a > little curious as to what used LP was in your jacket. Sheena Easton? > Herp > Alpert? Big Black? Is your curiosity strong enough to make you actually > apply fingernail to shrinkwrap? What's funny is that I online-know a guy who works for a distributor - and vinyl's big these days. I honestly don't know why (which is to say: I've heard and not been convinced by teh pro-vinyl crowd, so no need to rehearse that...). I don't get what's so terrible about CDs - well, I do, in that most people don't care enough about sound quality and would rather get mp3s for nothing. The funny thing is, it's perfectly viable to distribute at least front and back cover art, in reasonably high resolution, along with mp3s as part of their tags...and theoretically, at least the more important info in terms of musician credits, etc., in various other fields. Yet few people bother - even professionally and legally distributed mp3s usually use those fields merely for copyright notices. What'd be nice - given that most people would rather have the convenience & cheepnis of mp3s - is if they came bundled with virtual, interactive CD covers, that you could if you chose browse through, just like real live CD covers. The online medium means these could incorporate Flash or other animation or video as well. Hey - someone might even be willing to pay for higher-quality versions than you get on YouTube. What's funny is to listen to the hardcore capitalists of the record industry try to argue that people "should" pay more for a commodity (music) whose effective cost has fallen to zero. Esp. amusing given that the same megacorps (Sony, Phillips, etc.) underwrote the development of much of the digital infrastructure that's driven that cost drop. In order to get people to want to pay for something that's effectively free, you need either to persuade them of its scarcity or add some other kind of value. Duh. Personally, I still buy CDs for some releases, because the packaging concept, etc., often does add a flavor to the music that a naked mp3 can't provide. Some other things might be able to contribute to that flavoring - or, in this post's second Zappaism, add eyebrows to the music - but actually I"m surprised iTunes has succeeded in selling mp3s with nothing added for a buck each. > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:56:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: life after tangible music objects On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, 2fs wrote: > > Personally, I still buy CDs for some releases, because the packaging > concept, etc., often does add a flavor to the music that a naked mp3 can't > provide. Some other things might be able to contribute to that flavoring - > or, in this post's second Zappaism, add eyebrows to the music - but actually > I"m surprised iTunes has succeeded in selling mp3s with nothing added for a > buck each. > And they just passed by WalMart as the top music retailer-- take that, Eagles! But I think the reason why the buck-a-tune thing works is because people largely don't want the albums, and tend to think of a whole CD as like paying $16 for one song anyway. Thus, the mp3 is cheaper, and you do get a little silly image of the album cover with it, and for most folks, that's fine. My main reason for using the iTunes store is if I get a wild hair going on about needing a particular song-- let's just say it's "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" by Charley Pride-- and can't find a decent Pride compilation in the blogosphere, I might just cherrypick that tune for a dollar rather than go through any more trouble. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #565 ********************************