I finally gave in and purchased an iPod last Christmas (got one for each member of the family- they were a big hit)...
As much as Apple tries to position itself as "non-conformist," its amazing to me that their devices are MUCH more restrictive than other MP3 players- but enough of my anti-Apple rant.
Anyway, after spending a weekend burning my CD collection to iTunes, which saves them in Apple's stupid .m4a format so you can't burn them to an MP3 disc... :angry: stupid Apple (sorry, rant wasn't quite over :o), I realized I was
never going to be able to afford $1.00 a song from the iTune site if I wanted to download all my favorites from the fabulous 80s (which, of course, was the apex of music and cultural expression)!
Then a co-worker informed me of a site called
www.gomusic.ru, which allows you to
download tunes for only $0.09 a piece! That's about 100 extra tunes per your $10 vs. iStore. Plus, the songs are in .mp3 format- so you can later share or burn them to anything.
Perhaps everyone is already downloading music from similar sources, but I'm just so beside myself with joy as I download obscure tracks from The Kinks, Toto, Men at Work, and Irene Cara that I just had to share.
Enjoy! :p
PS- I'm a 41 year old optician, and I'm a
PC. Bite me, Apple!
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