I thought the record industry finally got it right, but boy was I wrong.
Like Xacttech, I'm downloading mp3s illegally as we speak instead of buying it. Why? Because its an alternative, and I'm taking that route like many others who feel like they're being ripped off.
And the purpose of iTMS was never because of the convenience factor for users, although they're pricing things as if they were offering the music to us for convenience sake. Convenience was d/l'ing any song we wanted, whenever we wanted without having to login and pay for songs and such. THAT was convenient, especially when all we wanted to do was listen to a single song to see if a band was good or not.
The only reason iTMS should exist is to stop music piracy and to give people a cheaper alternative. THAT is what digital music was about.....pricing. They don't even give us the physical album, album liner, or physical store anymore, so they charge us less for the album. $10 for an album? Sweet idea. That's why it all worked so well for a while.
I can't wait til school is over and I'm back in Toronto, where downloading music is legal.
Like Xacttech, I'm downloading mp3s illegally as we speak instead of buying it. Why? Because its an alternative, and I'm taking that route like many others who feel like they're being ripped off.
And the purpose of iTMS was never because of the convenience factor for users, although they're pricing things as if they were offering the music to us for convenience sake. Convenience was d/l'ing any song we wanted, whenever we wanted without having to login and pay for songs and such. THAT was convenient, especially when all we wanted to do was listen to a single song to see if a band was good or not.
The only reason iTMS should exist is to stop music piracy and to give people a cheaper alternative. THAT is what digital music was about.....pricing. They don't even give us the physical album, album liner, or physical store anymore, so they charge us less for the album. $10 for an album? Sweet idea. That's why it all worked so well for a while.
I can't wait til school is over and I'm back in Toronto, where downloading music is legal.
