I wrote a quick 800-word blog post for the Guardian’s Comment is Free site on Sunday on the fact that iTunes has now become the number one music retailer here in the United States.
It felt good to have a bit of a think and a type. I still amaze myself that I buy any iTunes songs at all. And I also bought some CDs for the first time in nearly a year this month – but only because my van only has a CD player at the moment, my iPod radio thing doesn’t work in the van, and Los Angeles radio is absolutely dreadful. Even then though, I hesitated with buying a CD. Now I have to rip the tracks – what a pain.
Digital downloads *are* music from this point on. But because of that iTunes needs to make sure it doesn’t rest on its laurels. Anyway, you can read my blog post on the Comment is Free site here – complete with argumentative and aggressive comments from members of the public who have only read the headline and sub-head.
Martin Belam
April 22, 2008 at 10:14 am“complete with argumentative and aggressive comments from members of the public who have only read the headline and sub-head” which is, of course, half the joy of Comment Is Free. I ended up buying the new Goldfrapp single on iTunes because I couldn’t locate a physical store that actually sold singles anymore in E17. I’d always rather have the disc, maybe that makes me old-fashioned.
Dan H
April 28, 2008 at 5:14 pm“Los Angeles radio is absolutely dreadful”?
KCRW 89.9 must not be to your taste?
anna
August 11, 2008 at 7:41 pmI want to add a cd to my itunes mut my stepson says that if I do it will earase my previouse songs-because thay were added from another computer…. any comments, ideas-anything?