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McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads
J ROC writes "CNet reports that McDonalds and Sony are teaming up to offer free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal. The offer, which begins on June 8, offers customers an access code to download one free song at Sony's Connect online music store. Hmmm, let's see, about 600 calories in a Big Mac, an average of 12 songs on a CD, so that's about 7200 calories you will need to consume in order to get an album's worth of music (and I'm not including the calories from the fries and softdrink). Does this offer also include a free gym membership?"
The free gym membership comes with the triple bypass.
Everything in moderation, even moderation.
No, especially moderation.
... Is the two-all beef patties song. Imagine playin that while rockin' down the highway.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
I'd rather pay the 99 cents and get it off iTunes, besides... I don't touch anything with "special sauce".
Customer: I'll have a chocolate shake, Don Henley's Greatest Hits, and, ummmm, The Eagles Greatest Hits to go, please.
McD: You want Frey's with that?
do feature a pedometer. So after you stumble to the emergency room during the major cardiac infarction, the coroner will eventually be able to tell how many steps you walked before your untimely demise.
..how long will it be, before McDonald's is accused of fattening people by luring them with music then?
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In what dimension do Slashdotters care about counting calories? I'd have thought that the discussion would be about how to circumvent the Sony DRM. or building a beowulf cluster of McDonalds pedometers -- something more befitting of this community.
Be proud of the ketchup stains on your t-shirt, goddammit!
"I usually like mine with an angioplasty."
I wish everyone would quit their bitching about how unhealthy McDonalds is. I don't mean to be a defender of bad food, in fact, I'm a vegetarian and eat at McDonalds once or twice a year, but it's not like McDonalds ever pretended that their food was healthy. If the American public is too retarded to tell that eating a jucy burger, deep FAT fried french fries, and a calorie-sugar-caffene laden soda isn't good for them, the maybe they deserve to have their arteries clogged.
Sure, it's a bit sad that they market their product so strongly to children - but adults have no reason to complain. If you don't want horribly unhealthy food, don't eat there - or at least get one of their moderately healthy parfaits or salads or the new veggie burger.
The only thing that really pisses me off about McDonalds is that when they finally started making a Veggie Burger, they made it taste like shit. There's lots of veggie burgers out there that taste great, but McDonalds had to make one that could never compete in taste with their real meat patties.
This is Andrew Q Ranter, signing off.
Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.
This is actually a mass murder/genocide plot by the RIAA. Kill/poison "the problem" and it goes away, right?
In this case, destroy all the evil music downloaders (or as the RIAA calls them, "freeloaders") with greasy fast food. How dare they ruin their overpriced music dreams!
This whole "online musical revolution" thing has been a thorn in their side for too long and they are ready to DO something!
Think ABOUT IT, man!
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
what size server farm will be able to live up to their "Over a Billion Served" claim.
come on fhqwhgads
You forgot to factor in what scientists and dieticians like to refer to as the BAAM factor (not to be confused with Emeril's BAM!). Which many believe is McDonalds way to actually decrease the weight of their customers, a diet of sorts.
BAAM is expanded as Barf At Abhorrent Music, which would not only eliminate the 600 Big Mac calories, but whatever else that had not yet been digested. Depending on which Pop band's CD you buy, you can actually end up at negative calories for the day.
This is only continuation of their great symbiosis. Even recently, if you do not feel very well after going to McDonalds, you can not be sure it was caused by BigMac or Britney you were feed with during the visit.
No, but the bigger ass comes free.
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When going to the download section of the site, I just get a message saying something like "You need to run Windows 98SE or higher, we have no intention on making this work on other OS's so screw you". But I'm running Linux, which is definitely higher than Windows 98SE!
Meh.
The artist who wrote, performed, recorded, published, and promoted the music will get a coupon for a free super size upgrade.
Wouldn't it have done you more good to run back to the place?
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
And the idea of the RIAA shooting themselves in the foot is simply preposterous. Wait a second...
1 cup of lard is 1850 calories, so you'd only have to eat 3.89 cups (.9208 litres) of yummy yummy lard, less depending on how many cokes you wash it down with.
Getting hungry just thinking about it. Wonder if I can get McDonalds to offer a McLard combo, with a side of extra lard. That would definitely get me the "McLardass of the Year" trophy.
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But which will kill you first -- the food, or the music?
You've got ronald mcdonald, a scurvy-ridden freak who's the prime representative of mcdonalds to the public. He's got major nutritional problems, besides his chalky-white face he's got bright-red hair and eye problems. Kind of like Joker when he fell into the vat of acid. Makes you want to think twice before biting into that cheeseburger, doesn't it?
Then you've got grimace, who's name is a synonym for making a face like you just ate something nasty. Actually, merriam-webster gives this definition : "a facial expression usually of disgust or disapproval" And what kind of mutant blob is he supposed to be? How many big macs did his mom eat while she was pregnant, to mutate him so much?
Fry-guys. Okay, so the french fries there don't even come from potatoes but from some obscure animal lifeform. Are they driven to extinction? Maybe they're last remaining hideout is in some corners of the Amazon rainforest. Or are they a collection of fries that, due to the toxic chemicals they're made from, suddently acquired a collective concious. Hmmm.
And the hamburgler. Yup, eating at mcdonalds makes you so addicted you resort to stealing to be able to get your next big-mac fix.
Seriously, what a bunch of weird-ass characters to represent a company. They are like their own X-Men or similar.
make world, not war
What happened is someone in marketing at Mickey D's has just figured out the term "bundling".
Just when we thought we'd taught our kid siblings and parents not to download the cute smileys because they'd get stuff they didn't want, the marketing team at Mc D's comes along and figures out how to bundle music with Big Macs.
Come to think of it, some might call it "reverse bundling", but sheesh! when is the insanity going to end?!
software salesperson to customer: "Ooh! You must be excited, Mr. Customer, what free new car would you like to select as a bonus with your purchase of Windows 2020?"
"Huh? Uh, new car? I just want my computer to stop crashing. And what's with this thing called "The eWallet 2020?"
And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you....
Does anyone here remember when a guy at Wired (I think) registered the mcdondonals.com domain for himself. He called up McDonalds and offered it to them. They said they had never heard of the internet and had no idea why they would ever want to be on it. This was back in 1994, I think.
Do you want to "go large" with that operation and add a bowel reconstruction, and liposuction for only 99cents?
So, they're going to lure us into buying more bad food, with bad music? Sounds like a plan...
Yeah, sometimes it's really hard living in America.
Promoting healthy diets is in vogue. Talking about heathy diets is in vogue. Actually eating a healthy diet....well, that's another story.