You're absolutely correct. iTunes is the best thing that ever happened to you. I've ripped almost half my CD collection at this point. I've got over 11 days of music at hand.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Mr. Broom - Oct 27, 2004 8:25:47 am PDT #5629 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Lyra Jane - Oct 27, 2004 8:26:00 am PDT #5630 of 10003
Up with the sun
Am I understanding correctly that it just means I have to put iTunes onto my computer and convert my files through that program?
Yes.
And actually, I don't think you even have to use iTunes to copy the files -- you just need to tell it where they are so it can put them in the library for your iPod. I have a ton of stuff I got from Napster or Kazaa on my last computer, that's now in my iPod library.
Alicia K - Oct 27, 2004 8:27:18 am PDT #5631 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Thanks for all the answers, everyone! I'm going to go and debate with myself over this deep burning need I feel to own a silly U2 iPod now.
Sue - Oct 27, 2004 8:31:26 am PDT #5632 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I just reread the blurb Alicia, and the ipod doesn't come pre-loaded with U2 songs. You get a $50 voucher for the itunes store to gotowards the $150 U2 virtual box set. Which seems to be a bit of a rip when you're paying so much for the iPod.
Alicia K - Oct 27, 2004 9:21:46 am PDT #5633 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Right, I knew that. I wouldn't be buying the digital box set, because I have just about everything they've put out, and a good load of stuff that never got officially released.
But honestly, $150 for 400 songs? That's a mighty good deal for someone who doesn't have all the U2 CDs already.
Yeah. The extras on this Very Special iPod kind of bite.
Sue - Oct 27, 2004 9:39:44 am PDT #5634 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Mmm, I'd like the rare stuff, but I wouldn't want 20 mixes of Lemon. The 90's U2 are still dead to me.
Alicia K - Oct 27, 2004 9:45:33 am PDT #5635 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Even "Achtung Baby"? Oh man. Sue, you're killing me!
"Zooropa" is one of my least beloved U2 albums, although the title track (at least the second half of it) fills me with much joy. And "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is just gorgeous.
"Pop" was misunderstood* and underappreciated. The tour was weird, but the album is great.
And the Zoo TV/Zoo Europa tour is just about the best thing ever.
But all the remixes they released to the fan club? God, I loathe those.
- I say misunderstood with some jokiness, but it was unfairly maligned, I think. It's got some really great songs.
JohnSweden - Oct 27, 2004 9:47:54 am PDT #5636 of 10003
I can't even.
Even "Achtung Baby"?
Not Achtung Baby, that stuff is brilliant, some of my favourite of all their work. After that, though, major bleakness.
Lyra Jane - Oct 27, 2004 9:51:42 am PDT #5637 of 10003
Up with the sun
But honestly, $150 for 400 songs? That's a mighty good deal for someone who doesn't have all the U2 CDs already.
I dunno. I've been buying most of my U2 stuff used, because I don't feel the need to buy new copies of stuff I already paid for on tape, and I don't think I've spent $150, and I have everything I want. But I'm not a big completist -- it might be a good deal for people who HAVE to have remixes and b-sides. (Not a dis, that's just not how my fannish brain works.)
"Zooropa" is one of my least beloved U2 albums
I love "Zooropa," but I understand it's an acquired taste. "Pop" never did much for me -- I think "Gone" and "Staring at the Sun" are the only great songs on there, and the lyric "miami/my mammy" is just embarassing.
Sue - Oct 27, 2004 10:02:43 am PDT #5638 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Even "Achtung Baby"? Oh man. Sue, you're killing me!
Achtung is where they lost me. Though I am intrigued by the bootlegs of the stolen tapes. I have only heard snippets, but they sound like the band I loved.
I have never heard Pop or Zooropa all the way through. But I have the Best of 1990-2000, and I find most of it unlistenable.
U2 were such the band of my adolescence, and The Unforgettable Fire is still a touchstone record for me, but their music rarely speaks to me they way it used to. Occasionally they put out a song I love, but we've grown apart. Shrug.