I feel a little better now.
yay!
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Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[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.
Lee - Sep 05, 2005 8:07:23 pm PDT #819 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Cass - Sep 05, 2005 8:10:38 pm PDT #820 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
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.
Trudy Booth - Sep 05, 2005 8:11:03 pm PDT #821 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
Cass - Sep 05, 2005 8:13:36 pm PDT #822 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
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.
P.M. Marc - Sep 05, 2005 8:18:09 pm PDT #823 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
billytea - Sep 05, 2005 8:25:26 pm PDT #824 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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?
P.M. Marc - Sep 05, 2005 8:25:59 pm PDT #825 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lee - Sep 05, 2005 8:27:49 pm PDT #826 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
She's gotten SO much bigger since I was there. Still painfully cute though.
tommyrot - Sep 05, 2005 8:28:48 pm PDT #827 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nowadays, the only music I download without paying for is either free to begin with or impossible to purchase at any price (eg: mashups).
libkitty - Sep 05, 2005 8:34:56 pm PDT #828 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I'm not actually going to buy something until I have heard enough to increase the liklihood that I will also actually enjoy it. It's why I really don't buy a lot of music now. The owners of the intellectual property no doubt don't care, but they would make a whole lot more money off of me if I could take their intellects for a test drive first.
As the copyright "expert" at my library, I'm pretty anal about this, but there is a good argument that downloading an entire song to determine whether or not you want to buy it is fair use, as long as you either buy or delete afterwards. Copyright holders should be treated fairly. But fair use is there for a reason, and should be used but not abused in order to avoid losing it altogether.
getting off my soapbox now.