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Amazon Hits iTunes Again With $0.99 Lady Gaga Album, Qualifies for Cloud Drive Storage Upgrade
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Everyone have their own taste in music, but she's one hell of a performer. She wouldn't be the 6th most influential person in the world if people didn't appreciated her work.
hmmm thats a pretty good deal, but i already have the bonus track version that i downloaded from mediafire hahahah.
On the topic of cloud based products and storage. I'm afraid I'm going to have to join the reactionary camp (if there is one) so to speak. I can't help but see possible dangers concerning privacy of the individual and dependance on the service provider. Also security, I'm no expert but big data centres hosting a wealth of personal information or digital media just seems like a big target.
I'll keep my hard media DVDs and Blu-Rays and my digital data on my hardisks.
Don't get me wrong, I see the benefits and if the market goes that way then I will have to move with it but if it's at all possible I prefer integrity over the risks of going for convenience.
I'll keep my hard media DVDs and Blu-Rays and my digital data on my hardisks.
Don't get me wrong, I see the benefits and if the market goes that way then I will have to move with it but if it's at all possible I prefer integrity over the risks of going for convenience.
Disturbing!
Cool deal (if you're a Lady Gaga fan), but seriously, that album cover is just freaky disturbing. Let's get some more rumors up so we don't have to see that every time we check in.
Cool deal (if you're a Lady Gaga fan), but seriously, that album cover is just freaky disturbing. Let's get some more rumors up so we don't have to see that every time we check in.
U know NOTHING about icloud so before u toot any horns
Get ur facts jack
iCloud could be a service where u need to pay for the clOud ability.
"yay!!! We pay more for songs!!! And then we can get to stream our songs that we paid for using bandwidth!".
It is. I wouldn't buy this on Amazon or iTunes. I've had a chance to listen to the whole thing for free on Farmville and refused to do so.
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What about applying your high standards of music quality to things like punctuation, grammar, and spelling?
ZMacintosh said:
What about applying your high standards of music quality to things like punctuation, grammar, and spelling?
The theme song to "The Munsters Today" (the one with the lyrics) has more talent invested than Gaga's derivative dross...
(and "talent" used to be a verb, not a noun... )
(and "talent" used to be a verb, not a noun...
)
iTunes definitely got the headstart in this case. There were definitely a lot of people that likely preordered the iTunes album ahead of time, and their credit card payment had likely processed before they heard of the deal.
Besides those folks though, Amazon probably grabbed a ton of first-time users today. I woke up this morning to find 4 or 5 people on my twitter feed already mentioning the sale and another 3 of my friends sharing the link on Facebook. And the group of people I socialize with aren't the biggest group of GaGa fans.
Honestly, you kinda hit the exact reason why I downvoted that comment. Hard to say iCloud will blow Cloud Storage out of the water when we have no concrete info about iCloud yet.
So? Just because geniuses have been criticized doesn't mean all people who are criticized are geniuses. (And I'm not saying the Beatles were or weren't geniuses.)
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. --Carl Sagan
Although I'm not a Gaga fan, I like some of songs that she's written for other artists, but I definitely agree with you. She only had to go that route, just like many artists, because today's generation doesn't care for piano and jazz and old school music, so the only way to get her music out there was to create a controversial image of herself, and whether you agree with what she's doing or not, she must be doing something right... I remember Eminem's line in "Sing for the moment" he says: "It's F*&%ed up ain't, how we can come from practically nothing, to being able to have any F$&*in' thing that we wanted..."
She's definitely succeeded at that
I'll just add this here, as it seems relevant. lady gaga pre-gaga at nyu.
1) When Apple releases/announces something everybody ***** in their pants.
It goes to the extreme end of companies releasing unfinished products.
2) Cloud storage means information for marketing and advertising. You know, the business that gives Google billions every single year. Or did you think that Amazon &co. builds server farms because they are you friend?
THINK before calling someone ignorant.
