Another thing that gets to me is how iTunes has nearly monopolized the digital music market, in spite of the fact that they sell pricey songs that can be played only on THEIR digital music players!
Considering that I am now totally uninterested in one of their digital music players, this is why I still buy CDs (although also because I tend to like albums that are intended to function as a single work of art - A Perfect Circle / Tool / Porcupine Tree / Dream Theater anyone?). To be fair, iTunes is selling some songs without DRM at all, but it's a very, very small selection of its library. Out of the 130 songs that I bought off iTunes, only FOUR are offered in non-DRM format. And the way that the pay structure is set up with the non-DRM thing is weird too - when they first offered it, it was $1.29 per song, or 30 cents to upgrade an existing song. But now it's just 99 cents to buy a new song without DRM - but you STILL have to pay the 30 cents to upgrade an existing song! I really don't know which one pisses me off more - the sheer Draconian nature of the first is nicely balanced by the maddening inconsistency of the second.
But I think it's awesome that you've found an actual real live radio station that plays music that you like! Who could imagine! I've resorted to NPR just to avoid the dreadfulness that is modern corporate rock.
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Date: 2007-11-02 02:22 am (UTC)Considering that I am now totally uninterested in one of their digital music players, this is why I still buy CDs (although also because I tend to like albums that are intended to function as a single work of art - A Perfect Circle / Tool / Porcupine Tree / Dream Theater anyone?). To be fair, iTunes is selling some songs without DRM at all, but it's a very, very small selection of its library. Out of the 130 songs that I bought off iTunes, only FOUR are offered in non-DRM format. And the way that the pay structure is set up with the non-DRM thing is weird too - when they first offered it, it was $1.29 per song, or 30 cents to upgrade an existing song. But now it's just 99 cents to buy a new song without DRM - but you STILL have to pay the 30 cents to upgrade an existing song! I really don't know which one pisses me off more - the sheer Draconian nature of the first is nicely balanced by the maddening inconsistency of the second.
But I think it's awesome that you've found an actual real live radio station that plays music that you like! Who could imagine! I've resorted to NPR just to avoid the dreadfulness that is modern corporate rock.