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Bands Bypass iTunes With iPhone Apps
iminplaya writes to tell us that the band "The Presidents of the United States of America" (yes, the peaches guys), are trying to expand their engagement with fans by selling their music via Apple's App store, something others have experimented with but never dealt with on this level. "The app, called 'The Presidents' Music — PUSA,' sells for $2.99 on the App Store (iTunes link) offers users access to four full albums, including the band's early 'lost' recordings. This includes the previously-unavailable FroggyStyle — 'unless you have one of the 500 cassettes the band sold in 1994, you've never heard this before,' reads the app description. The app also features a number of extras and exclusives that the band says are updated regularly, and fans can read the band's blog directly from the app on their iPhones or iPod touches. The music, however, is not actually contained within the application itself; instead, it is streamed to the app from a server, requiring the user to be connected to a network of some kind (iPhone users on the cell or WiFi network, iPod touch users on WiFi) in order to access the media."
Please buy my app (profanespeak) to read my comments on this article.
Linux Torvalds doesn't
Oh thats embarrassing.
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What do you expect for $3 measely dollars? Maybe the band should come to your house with signed copies of all the music you have access to and load it onto your computer, your kid's computers, and maybe even take your wife out for coffee? I mean damn... You did give them three whole dollars!
If you want to listen to the music on the computer, pay for it from the iTunes store. If you want it in portable format, pay for the CD. Or hell, don't pay for anything and just steal it like everyone else does.
I think I need to take a step away from /. because if I see one more person write a post about, "I expect the world for less than a Chinese sweatshop worker gets paid in a day.", I'm going to freak the fuck out.
[Chorus:]
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, Gonna steal me a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
Movin' to bittorrent, gonna steal a lot of songs
(Wow)
Songs come from a torrent,
they were put there by a pirate
In a country overseas
If I had my little way,
I'd steal songs every day
So many songs to be played
[Chorus]
Take a little app where the tunes all exist
Heard a rotten song and was pissed
And dreamed about you, RIAA,
I used my encryption down inside
Make a little room my songs to hide
Pirate's bounty in my PC or Laptop or a Phone
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Millions of songs, songs for me
Millions of songs, songs for free
Amusing, but you destroyed the meter of the song. "Peaches" is two syllables while "songs" is one. The way the song is sung ("pee chez") you don't have enough syllables to fill the notes. Try using "MP3s" instead. It should fit into the meter a bit better.
"Moving to the bittorrent, gonna steal me a lot of em-p'threes"
See how much better that sounds?
(Yes, that was a totally pedantic and geeky thing to worry about. I make no apologies. :-P)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
All right, PUSA, PUSA, PUSA! Come on in PUSA lovers! Here at the Titty Twister we're slashing PUSA in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of PUSA, this is a PUSA blow out! All right, we got white PUSA, black PUSA, Spanish PUSA, yellow PUSA, we got hot PUSA, cold PUSA, we got wet PUSA, we got
smelly PUSA, we got hairy PUSA, bloody PUSA, we got snappin' PUSA, we got silk PUSA, velvet PUSA, Naugahyde PUSA, we even got horse PUSA, dog PUSA, chicken PUSA! Come on, you want PUSA, come on in, PUSA lovers! If we don't got it, you don't want it! Come on in, PUSA lovers!
Sorry, I just watched that movie again 2 days ago.
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