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(Plz to be pardoning typos, I ran out of time typing this up and had to run to class.)

Hey, look! An online music store that sells files you can actually play on something other than an iPod!

This is such a good idea. iTunes is a pain in the ass for those of us who like our non-iPod MP3 players - you have to DL the song, burn it, rip it, and then put it on your player. And this, come to think of it, is just with an .m4a file. I don't know if an iTunes purchase can even be burned. Tell me, iTunes, why should I give you money for a song I have to go thrugh hoops to listen to outside my house, if I can at all, when I can hassle a friend into downloading it for me (I fear using LimeWire on a PC)?

On the other hand, now I can go to Amazon, get the song I want, and put it on my player no hassle. I have a vague awareness that this is hardly the first place where you can get straight-up .mp3 files, but the only other place I've tried was Wal-Mart's website, which wanted me to download a program, and call me snobby, but I don't want Wal-Mart's software on my computer. Amazon requires the same thing, from the looks of it - I can't test it out at school - but I trust Amazon slightly more than Wal-Mart, and it's not so, well, icky. (Apologies to certain Wal-Martian friends I have. You know I think you're cooler than your job!) I'd be quite happy to pay a buck for a song I want without any attendant hassles.

And it's so encouraging that so many record labels have signed up. They're finally getting it! There are plenty of us who would be happy to pay for a song instead of taking our chances acquiring it illegally. You just gotta make it easy for us to do so! People who don't want to pay never will and that's that, but the way they've been doing things have screwed them out of cash from people who do want to pay. I've tried to buy songs online before only to find the process exasperating, and given up in frustration and turned to piracy. Now I can buy a song when I want it, not struggle with a bunch of hassle and bullshit, not expose my computer to viruses and malware from dodgy file-sharing, not bug my friends to avoid that last, and be guaranteed a clear, high-quality file. Go Amazon!

God, I sound like a geek cheerleader. Heh. Oh well. I'm stoked about this. Plus, the second dose of Adderall hit my bloodstream a few minutes ago. I could cheerlead about anything right now.

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[beckla30.livejournal.com]

I can see that. I could never understand why Apple decided to let PC users have iTunes/iPods. I wonder if that's the reason why I still don't see many people with mp3 players other than an iPod. But I suppose that generated more money for them in the long run. Although, my mom just got a PC and it cost her almost 1500 as well. PCs and Macs are no longer that far apart in price. I don't know if that's because Apple felt pressure to lower their prices or if my mom got herself a loaded PC.

Not that this will really matter in about a year or two because by then all phones will always be mp3 players.