Willow ,'Empty Places'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cass, I totally agree with being able to hear it first. It's why I support sites like iTunes Music Store so much. You can listen to a good sized piece of the music, and you can buy one track at a time. So far it seems to be the best option.
I loved Napster when it was out and used it to audition a lot of music and then either went out and purchased or deleted the tracks.
I'm also not totally rational about this since it hits so close to home and I've had my work outright stolen and used.
But you don't look like the farmer, either.Fair point, actually. I hadn't really thought of it from that perspective. I feel a little better now.
Now back to reread ND's post. Which potentially has fair points too.
I feel a little better now.
yay!
It's why I support sites like iTunes Music Store so much. You can listen to a good sized piece of the music, and you can buy one track at a time. So far it seems to be the best option.It is the best option I have seen. Just not one that leads me to buying a lot of entire albums. I mostly use it to fill out music that I already know I like. Their snippets aren't really enough for me to decide if I like a whole album (wow, old... albums...). I don't know the tech of it at all but if they could find a way to let me download an album freely and play it for a couple of days before it self-destructs or I pay up, golden.
I loved Napster when it was out and used it to audition a lot of music and then either went out and purchased or deleted the tracks.When it started, I downloaded like crazy. And started spending like crazy too. Alas, no interesting and useful technology goes unpunished.
I'm also not totally rational about this since it hits so close to home and I've had my work outright stolen and used.
deeply. fucking. shitty.
OTOH, anyone finds me Peter Godwin's Images of Heaven without having to spend $50 for just the one damn song...
Apparently I have standards, but only to a certain price.
I know I usually downloaded things I would otherwise have purchased, and usually later did, but couldn't find in the small hours. Sometimes, I downloaded things I already owned, but had misplaced.
And, fine, a lot of live bootlegs of Tori Amos and Depeche Mode.
These days, I'm mostly iTuning it.
I spend a lot of money on iTunes. I adore it for the ability to grab one off tracks.
Oh yes, it is of the good. Though I have a fauxPod, so I'm spending my money on fauxTunes. And, Dell offers such a service, which is compatible with my fauxPod, but they don't offer it in Australia and I can't buy from their American site now I no longer have a US-addressed credit card. So I use an Australian site, and my fauxPod only recognises the title and not the artist. Bad fauxPod, no biscuit.
Oh, I can't sustain that, I loves my fauxPod. Don't know how I got on without it. ND! Have you bought Aperitif For Destruction yet?
She's gotten SO much bigger since I was there. Still painfully cute though.