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Apple Sells A Million Songs in Debut Week
Scrameustache writes "According to an Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store sold over one million songs during its first week. Over half of the songs were purchased as albums, and over half of the 200,000 songs offered on the iTunes Music Store were purchased at least once.
Those new iPods are selling like hotcakes too..."
Offerings on P2P networks have almost tripled!
If this is Heaven I'm bailin out! I cant tolerate this ol tin-tub, so fulla trash and rats...
Apple has found something to make it profitable. Quick sell the hardware side of the business.
I THINK you'll find that the more the RIAA tightens it's grip, the more potential music buyers will slip through its fingers.
Or something.
That was classic intercourse!
I thought this iTunes thing was full of DRM gotchas, such as having to re-buy the songs if your computer died..? Are there really that many idiotic people around or am I just misinformed?
Many people insulate themselves against such problems by keeping backups on CD.
ASA
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
I THINK you'll find that the more the RIAA tightens it's grip, the more potential music buyers will slip through its fingers.
Well said Governor Tarkin.. er.. Princess Leia.
Trolling is a art,
And free, too!
Blue skies, Barthy Burgers, girls...
Cupertino, CA - Apple's recent announcement that over 1 million songs had been purchased in the first week of its new music store's existence presents undeniable proof that Apple users will overpay for anything.
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Since the iTunes Music Store works only with iTunes... and iTunes is only available at present on the Macintosh...
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
Seriously! Where the fuck do you people get off listening to your fancy shmancy music? You should take the Avril Lavigne and Shakira we give you and be grateful for it, you elitist bastard!
Maybe its not
that cheap
iTunes Man
To the tune of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel
Filk by Scott Taylor
It's nine o' clock at the iTunes store,
A phenomenal crowd's logging on,
There's an old man on AOL
Finding music from ages bygone.
He says, "Steve can you play me a memory?"
"I'm not really sure how it goes"
"But I typed in a track and got album names back!"
"And I'm not even wearing my clothes!"
Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.
Sell us a song, you're the iTunes man,
Sell us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got the pricing just right.
Now Claude at Vivendi's a friend of mine
And his business is selling CDs.
And knows the solution for store distribution,
But he's worried about MP3s.
He says "Steve I believe this is killing us"
"All these pirates don't pay us a dime."
"Well I'm sure that you could be a billionaire"
"If you could sell music online."
Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.
Sell us a song, you're the iTunes man,
Sell us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got the pricing just right.
Now Paul is an iPod enthusiast
Who listens to Jazz with his wife
And he's chatting with Maxine, who's still in the rap scene
And probably will be for life.
And the waitress is downloading Dixie Chicks
As the dial-up man slowly gets Stones
Yes they're sharing the bandwidth from Akamai
But it's better than P2P clones.
Sell us a song, you're the iTunes man,
Sell us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got the pricing just right.
Its a pretty good crowd for just Macintosh
And the PC guys give me a smile
Cause they know that iTunes will be Windows-bound soon
If they just can hold out for a while.
And the AAC sounds like originals
And rights management isn't a pain,
And they sit at the screens of their iTunes machines
And say "Man, this is worse than cocaine!"
Sell us a song, you're the iTunes man,
Sell us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got the pricing just right.
Grub, my man, you must be the Slashdot master of one-liners. Your Karma-to-Words-Typed Ratio must be very impressive.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
You had to look that up? I thought this was a geek site! If you can't quote the original trilogy from memory then what are you doing here? ;)
graspee
Since when has a monopoly been bad?
-BrentBut that's just a rumor.
Are you saying that the music industry's greediness is hurting their bottom line?
Don't forget burning in hell. Potential civil and criminal penalties, plus burning in hell.
New ad campaign (as if Apple needed one; they're getting all the business they can handle): "Isn't your immortal soul worth 99 a song?"
Yeah, yeah, I know it's a funny joke on Mac whores, but, as a Mac whore myself, I want to let everyone know that Mac whores like me overpay for stuff because we are trying to convey positive reinforcement to Steve, so Steve will keep rocking the boat and pushing this fucking boatload of bozos (i.e., the 'technology industry') forward. Personally, I'm fucking sick of hearing about Bill G's nice house and bank accounts, and Larry Ellison's Samurai fixation. I'll put too much of my money in Steve's pocket just so he keeps lighting fires in Silicon Valley. Can I get a fucking WITNESS?!
Steve Job's music collection increased dramatically the last week after he discovered that he could buy music off his own website.
"Reality Distortion Field"? Maybe.
I think it's more a case of the Big Swinging Dick.
That's why they bought him a freakin' jet, because he's got the cahones to get things done.