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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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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
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.
I know plenty of lower income families who shop at Walmart and haven't heard of Asians.
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!