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Ring Tones Will Save the Music Industry
tabdelgawad writes "Well, not quite, but according to Jay A. Samit, senior vice president for new media at music label EMI Group PLC, quoted in this Washington Post article, "This is huge. This is the largest growth area for music companies and our artists". The article goes on to prove two facts we already know: that the music industry is greedy (already asking for a bigger slice of this pie!) and that the porn industry is a prime innovator in marketing and technology :-)"
Ha!
You REALLY think shallow Americans won't scramble all over themselves to pledge allegiance to their favorite boy band/pair of tits that sings/rebellious rawk star. Yeah, it's fucking annoying, but not to the vegetard that has it on their phone, just to everybody else in the room.
"Oh my GAWD! You got the new ShitBoys RING TONE on your KEWL CEL-PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE TEH BOMB!!!!!!!!!!! I need to get it too so I CAN BE TEH BOMB ALSO LIKE YOU. I want to be ACCEPTED INTO YOUR SOCIAL GROUP and since I can't emit pheromones like animals I HAVE TO BUY TEH RING TOOOOOOOOOONE!!!"
or something like that. whatever the case, I fully expect this to take off here, and each time I heard a stupid ring tone I will VISUALIZE the PAINFUL FIERY DEATH of the phone's owner IN MY MIND.
That site is overloaded. Try this one. This track is particularly bad: aaargh
cool techno music is an oxymoron. Come to think of it, so are you.
I know cool by a complete lack of Japanese influence.
Japanese pop culture is decidedly uncool if you do not wish to support a racist, corporatist modern-day feudal state. In Japan today, instead of being owned by the daimyo, you are now owned by your employer. The children are pacified with toys and hello kitty type shit. Fuck that.