Now you understand why so many of them complain about $200 per step for upgrading RAM or SSD.
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New Limited-Edition 'Apple Music: 100 Best Albums' Book Costs $450
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Now you understand why so many of them complain about $200 per step for upgrading RAM or SSD.
Yup. Some of those books can be in the tens of thousands.
There's really no other way to say this, so I will just say it...if $450 isn't considered cheap for a book like this, you're not wealthy by any standard, let alone "most". In the realm of books like this, $450 is nothing.
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But wealthy people don't just exist in the realm of books. It's simply a matter of what people choose to spend money on. I have hobbies where I spend money that even a wealthy person might consider frivolous and shake their head at.
I'm not sure what you mean by your first sentence. The OP said they are wealthy by most standards and they don't consider $450 to be cheap for a book like this. I'm not a collector of books like the one in the article, yet I still think $450 is reasonable for this book, given the low number of copies and its Apple-related theme. In fact, I bought a copy of this Apple Music book just to sit on top of my G5 tower, where my router sits, for two reasons: One, it will look nice there, and two, I know most people won't have it.
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I mean that there are plenty of people that would willingly spend $450 on a book that they desired, but that's not necessarily tied to wealth. I'm sure there are lots of wealthy folks that have no interest in books, and might consider such a purchase to be idiotic, even if they see the dollar value as trivial.
It's not.
At least 20% is definitely worthy of the list, and many others are new to me / I don't have mental capacity to start discovering, so maybe actually more, who knows.
No matter what you listen to, you are hearing inspirations from albums such as Untrue, Songs in the Key of Life, The Downward Spiral, and many others from the list as well. These are absolutely worthy of top 100.
I wish there'd be more "underground" electronic music tho. Goldie maybe? Noisia — Split the Atom? C&K — Zeitgeist? Well...
Understood. But, a person doesn't have to be wealthy to think spending any amount of money on anything is idiotic. My point is, if a person claims they are wealthy, but they think spending $450 on a book like this is expensive (opposite of cheap), they are not wealthy.
While I disagree with you, saying 20% is an acceptable margin of error for the 100 best albums of all time?
I'm glad you found some new music you haven't heard, that wasn't the point of the book.
I stopped looking at the list the minute I saw "Lemonade" higher than any album Bob Dylan put out. And Prince's Purple Rain when Sign of the Times is so much better.
Just retitle it, 100 best albums compiled by 20 year old Apple Music subscribers and I would be ok with it.
Which makes it even more precise then?
Thank god it's not made by boomers or whatever, but rather by people who can appreciate modern art and pop culture, and share their joy about it.
What do you listen to? Calling daft punk garbage?
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Agreed. My first thought seeing this was "this feels like something they could have pulled off around 2008 or so when everything coming out by them was unique and iTunes and iPods were cultural phenomenons and macs were at the tail end of being underdogs with some mystique around them to people who didn't use them. That was a time when the weird Apple fanatacism made some sense. They aren't that company anymore, even if they are a more sucessful one.
As for Apple Music, I've tried to switch to it from Spotify twice and just don't why anyone would prefer it.
Agree. They need to sell MORE stuff like this. Soak the rich, give the rest of us a break on RAM and SSD upgrades
My daily playlist can go from UB40 — Rat in the Kitchen to Noisia — Shitbox to Infant Annihilator — Childchewer in a span of few hours.
If ~20 albums from the list managed to break into even my pretty specific bubble, and leave me with «well, maybe it’s not for me but I can understand the appeal and beauty of it», then it’s a good list.
Not without questionable decisions as you’ve mentioned, but overall good.
