July 14, 2004
Buying music online

Every single time I wanted to purchase some music.. it's not available on iTunes...

There's a song from the "Lost in Translation" soundtrack that i really wanted.. honestly, it's easier to just download it from a sharing service... this is about the third time in a row I wanted a song and couldn't find it short of "sharing".

I have credit cards, I have an iPod, where's the damn music I want? Record companies, are you even listening or too busy suing?

Posted July 14, 2004 10:46 PM in Random
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On July 15, 2004 12:33 AM Gregory added:

I think they are listening and don't care. They seem to really want you to go out and buy the damn CD sometimes. There are a few full CDs that I would have loved to have bought from iTMS, yet they didn't have all the tracks. And since I'm lazy, I still don't have them.

And of course, I'm much more likely to impulse buy on iTMS than elsewhere. It's just too easy to click buy. I wish they'd see that.

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On July 15, 2004 01:26 AM david added:

They're too busy trying getting tutorials on double-clicking to notice that there could be a large profit to be had if they just be a bit more open minded about getting tracks out there. (Like say..when a movie is released..all tracks go out to iTMS?)

Most labels have done it really, its just..I think there is more than meets the eye to getting a track on iTMS than we can see (legal agreements, legal hoopla) which cause excessive delays (or even pulling) of tracks.

Could be a lot of reasons. Will we ever know? Nope.

For now, to legally get a CD, we'll have to do it the old way: Arm, meet CD. Leg, meet cash register. Cash register, i'll be coming back for my leg come my next paycheck.

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On July 15, 2004 03:54 AM Sam added:

Big brother decides what music you listen to.

We should at least be able to swap files that are unobtainable in shops or from legal DL sites.

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On July 15, 2004 09:22 AM ryan added:

how do u stop yahoo messenger from poping up everytime you on your computer

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On July 15, 2004 03:44 PM Travis added:

I had the same disappointment when I decided to visit iTMS for the first time some months ago. I wanted to grab a few single tracks of songs that I wanted and would occasionally hear on the radio. They didn't have a one. They weren't the most popular songs, but not particularly obscure either.

I'll have to find Stephen Still's "Tree Top Flyer" elsewhere.

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On July 15, 2004 03:50 PM DarG added:

Have you tried the Russian allofmp3.com? iTMS drove me there with it's lack of selection.

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On July 18, 2004 11:59 AM Marc added:

I know your pain.

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