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Digital Music Stores Reviewed
Kozz writes "If you've thought about trying the new Napster 2.0, or perhaps MusicMatch, or even WAL*MART music service, you really need to read this review at BBspot.com. Brian takes a break from his standard satire fare and writes a comprehensive review not only of the previously mentioned stores, but also of BuyMusic.com, eMusic, Apple iTunes, and RealOne Rhapsody. It breaks down the features of each service, the prices, restrictions, general pros and cons, and really gives you an idea of which one(s) you should try depending on your needs."
Something in the back of my head is echoing that soft warning that I always hear when I think of wal-mart. Watch, they'll undercut and dominate this market place too.
Its going to be hard to undercut free. But if wal-mart ever start paying people to download mp3s, I'll be there.
It's called Kazaa. They have tons of MP3s, games and p0rn all for free! They're just giving it away. It's great.
BTW: Hot Tip! Check out that Metallica band. They have lots of stuff on Kazaa and it all rocks!
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Let me guess, you also have a collection of about 10,000 mp3s. How much did the artists get for those?
No joke. This /. crowd seems to have some sort of ADD..ohh shiny.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
Golly, how limiting. Only 95% of the world can relate to that. Too bad they didn't focus on music purchasing solutions for the Amiga. I SMELL CONSPIRACY!
Agreed.
I have had only one problem with my Itunes for windows, its too easy to spend a bunch on music (I spent $120 on itunes last month!)
I also think that the sharing of playlists from different people over the network is really cool.
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"Who does not want to use iTunes? .wma files. Someone with a digital music player other than an iPod. Someone who wants streaming music"
Someone who wants a player to listen to their
Dammit you mean all that streaming music i have been listening to in iTunes was in my head the whole time. Well at least im a lot more creative than i thought i was:)
All those pickles... wasted!
You didn't hear it from me, but Wal-Mart is in secret talks with Sony to produce walking Greeter Robots, Checkout Clerk Robots, Stockboy Robots, Cleanup Robots, and Union-Buster Robots! In related news, McDonalds is laying off 95% of their human resource grunts to be replaced by Burger Flipping Bots, and Spit-in-a-Cops-Burger Bots.
Getting rid of all those pesky human employees means much, much lower prices for... for... hey, where did all the customers go? Waiting in breadlines?
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It's so damn hypocritical when one
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Hey, if you cloned someone 750,000 times, I bet you couldn't get every clone to agree with any one opinion, let alone 750,000 individuals.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
No way, I saw them twice on this tour with Dimmu Borgir, Nevermore and Children of Bodom and they were awesome, they kicked the asses of pretty much any ba...
... hope you don't have a scene like this in your house on xmas morning ;) (sorry, just had to slip this link in somewhere! it's none of my business what you spend your money on, and i agree with you on the value thing).
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(Quoted from your article:)
By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand.
So, Wal-Mart demonstrates that Vlasic pickles aren't worth quite as much as Vlasic claims, and we're supposed to pity Vlasic and their investment in marketing, and scold Wal-Mart for acting in self-interest? Now that's laughable.
But there's relief from that anguish. It's called earplugs.