Can someone explain iTunes to me?
by blackhatgk on May.17, 2003, under My personal dribble
I’m having trouble understanding the whole iTunes online music shopping thing…
According to the website, it’s $0.99 per song. So for me to download the new Marilyn Manson CD from them it would cost me around 15 dollars<15 tracks>. I can buy the CD from cdnow for only $13.99 and I’m sure I can get it from best buy or circuit city probably cheaper.
I understand that a lot of people will just go out there and buy the popular songs off of the albums and ignore the rest of the work, but for most people that really like music, an album is a piece in itself, the collection of related music is as important as the single piece.
For example, how good would Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy bee in comparison to the whole of the nutcracker suite??
So the point is, is iTunes really doing anything beneficial to the music industry when it’s just chopping up the works of musicians into popular pieces and bites and separating the works as a whole?
And is iTunes really worth it to the people who use it when they are paying more per song than a CD?? I thought the whole goal of the digital revolution was to lower the cost of music by removing the manufacturing and distribution costs?
