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Wal-Mart to Launch Online Music Store
Dteyn writes "I heard on the radio today that Wal-Mart will soon be opening up an online music store to compete with the likes of Apple's iTunes and Napster. According to the radio newsguy, it's expected to be officially announced as early as next week. Looks like this 'digital music' thing is starting to catch on with the bigwigs. Finally."
So will we be seeing them for 49 cents a song then?
And I can print out a coupoun for a yellow happy face with the purchase of each song online-Walmart song right?
Is the little tune they play with each commerical free download? or do I have to pay for that too?
Can I buy online and pickup the songs on a cd in the store? That would be great!
-Grump.
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All that is left now is Microsoft's turn:
(1) Call it MS Tunester
(2) Bundle with new version of Media Player
(3) Introduce Drakonian DRM
(5) ????
(6) Profit!
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Actually I was 22 at the time I tried to buy the movie and dressed in my work clothes (suit & tie) and I still got carded. Yet I've made beer runs to Wally-World (knew it was 24 hours for a reason) in my "rag" clothes and not gotten carded. Something is wrong with that picture....
Personally the paranoid part of me thinks they just wanted the excuse to key my license number into their database. Doesn't explain why I've gotten away with buying booze there and not being carded thou.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Too true. Of course it defeats evolution by providing a place where all of these lobotomized individuals can meet each other and mate. Perhaps we need some wild predatory animals at Wally World to thin the herd? ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Although it seems pretty unlikely that spending my time digging around in the OED is going o get me wafed (assuming it takes the regular past tense (the ladies love it when you talk about linguistics (almost as much as (riduclously) nested quotes))) anytime soon
:)
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We buy the rights wholesale. ;)
Like people who go to Wal-Mart know what the internet is.
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I love the 24-hour Walmarts because I do my weekly marketing at about 4AM every Saturday. (That's the time I get up during the week, so I see no need to change my hours on the weekend.) The great thing about shopping at that time is the fact that all the strippers just got off work. I've seen women in there that would have given ole Sam a heart attack.
:-)
Wal-Mart needs to understand that people don't want to download music online. They want to visit a physical store and pay artificially high prices for a limited selection of music that are willing to be raped by the RIAA.
After all, which kinds of businesses usually succeed? Businesses that offer consumers what they want at a reasonable price? Or businesses that screw the consumer, call them thieves, sue them, pass draconian legislation, and restrict choices? After all, the only good music is RIAA music.
Maybe now that I've posted this, Wal-Mart will reconsider. And others will stop jumping onto this music downloading fad which is not what people really want.
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