Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Apple Makes a Rare Mistake

Anyone with genitalia knows about the iTunes music store. Most of the time I subvert the use of the store through alternate channels, but sometimes it's necessary to use it to acquire that good shit that you can't get from RedTube or YouPorn. Well, apparently now they offer exclusively "iTunes Plus" material (I still don't know what iTunes Plus means, but I don't think it can be that much better than "iTunes Neutral" or even the always popular "iTunes Negative"). What this means is that every "popular" song costs 129 cents, rather than the traditional 99.
This also means that albums (alba?) cost 1,299 cents, rather than the traditional 999 cents. This is totally fucked, and it makes me mad, because the reason I buy shit on iTunes is that I don't have to pay 13 dollars, like I would at the record store.
Here is a photographic example of the wacksauce new policy, using Paper Trail as exhibit Aaayyyyy:
Needless to say, this makes me mad, because I used to think the iTunes store was like the most perfect entity on earth, but now it's just another cash-hungry corksoaking money-sucker. Now I'm going to have to pay 3 dollars more, and if I do that 10 times, that's an extra 30 dollars, which is like 3 Bennett's subs. Christ jesus, iTunes is taking away our Bennett's!!!!!

iTunes "Plus" - Really shitty

PS, Why is "On Top of the World" the only song that doesn't cost 129 cents? What is so bad about that song? I would argue that it's one of the top 4 on the album, and yet iTunes thinks that it's the worst. Poor B.o.B.

2 comments:

  1. essentially the record companies raised their costs and either apple could take on the costs themselves or raise their prices, the first option would literally make itunes nonprofit-able for apple. Here a useless website that doesnt really say that:

    http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/06/20090107_b4mt_macworld/

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