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Wal-Mart Music Download Service Launches
nns6561 writes "Wal-Mart launched their music download service today. They are providing wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks." While it may be only another online music seller, I'd hazard a guess that Wal-Mart has the name recognition to be the most prevalent music download service, especially among the tech-unsavvy.
The test file said "Thanks for shopping at Wal-mart!
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88 cents every son every day! you have to pay 88 cents a day?
wma files for 88 cents. I was able to download and play the test file with MPlayer and Linux. Finally, a music service for us geeks.
.vma files to /dev/audio and decoding the audio by ear. I mean, how geekier can you get?
Yes, huzzah and hurrah with highly polished brass knobs on. Everybody knows the vma format is the sound format of choice for true geeks. Geeks even make a point of cat-ing their
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I always wondered what WMA stood for.
they analyze their first day traffic and see Slashdot as their number one referrer, Linux i386/i686 as their number one OS, and Mozilla/Gecko as the number one browser.
So, does this mean that their music folders are going to be a complete mess like the aisles I wander down in Wal-Mart when I visit?
Will I have barefoot pregnant mothers with no front teeth jostling me so they can download "Shania Twain's Greatest Hits" first in the queue, before me?
Will my internet connection be trampled over, causing me to pass out, as a mob of people try to download the new cut price 77c song?
Boy oh boy, I can hardly wait!
It'll be about the only thing for sale at Walmart with a price that doesn't end with .99.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
not to mention i don't want all of us to be shopping at walmarts, eating at tacobells, and having sex without touching. ...and nothing else
So in the interests of full disclosure the price should really be marked as "88 cents...AND YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL!"
I bet that would've messed up the formatting on their website or something though. Oh well.
Off topic, but I couldn't resist. Wal-Mart is soon to enter the retail wine (fermented grapes) business, according to a press release some months ago, and have actually contacted a number of the major players in California bulk wine to brand their own name. At our wine shop, we received an email from another shop suggesting the Top 12 possible names: ...
12. Chateau Traileur Parc
11. White Trashfindel
10. Big Red Gulp
9. Grape Expectations
8. Domaine Walmart "Merde du Pays"
7. NASCARbernet
6. Chef Boyardeaux
5. Peanut Noir
4. Chateau des Moines
3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar!
2. World Championship Riesling
And the number 1 name for Walmart Wine
1. Nasti Spumante
I know plenty of lower income families who shop at Walmart and haven't heard of Asians.
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You've never met a Walmart customer, have you? Not people that go to Walmart to buy condoms and liquor at 2 in the morning, I mean customers. The psychotic women who take 5 kids down there every other day. They recoil in horror at a $0.06 markup on the one fucking jar of pickles they buy a year. They're caught in the Cult of Walmart, and they will ford a river with a dozen fucking oxen to save $0.10 on little Susie's shitty Linkin Park song. And if Susie points out the free would be even cheaper? Then Susie is fucking wrong, goddamnit, because nothing is cheaper than Walmart, you hear me? NOTHING!
Record label: "The volume is GREAT, but how about we jack up the prices now? I don't want to have to downsize mansions again and give up the crack habit."
Walmart: "I'm sorry, but we need to offer our customers a better value every year. If you can't do it for 38 cents, we can find someone who will."
Record label: "And I thought I was evil."
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6) Sets up dictators in small 3rd world countries. (see: Sadam)
7) Sponsors baby kicking competitions: The winner gets enrolled in the "Club a baby seal of the month" club.
8) Dump its evil money into research to SPREAD cancer.
9) Customers who bring back returns somehow end up in little 8oz cans on the Soylent green isle.
Well of course mplayer didn't work! You typed in the command:
mplayer Crash
If you stay long enough you're left with back problems, wrist problems, and bone spurs for your trouble.
And how is this is any different from working at any grocery store, Target, Sears, gas station, or toll both, ticket counter, convienence store etc?
Does Walmart buy special non ergonomic keyboards for the registers (moot point anyway as everything is scanned), and special granite floor pads to stand on that cause these problems?
What do other retailers in the US pay for wages and is it really any different then Walmart? Walmart is big so it is easy to get some statistics but if you add up 10 or 15 other mid sized retailers you will find the same wages, the same working conditions, but yet, they are somehow not "evil".
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.