I want a better way to buy music
Nov. 23rd, 2006 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jl8eI just picked up Tom Waits' Orphans, and it struck me how silly the music-buying process has become. I buy these CDs, rip the music onto my computer, load it onto my iPod, and never, ever, look at the shiny plastic things again.
OK, that's not quite true. They occasionally get played in a car, and they're a handy format for lending to friends.
My CD collection has deteriorated into a completely disorganized mess, and it's not worth the time to organize it.
I want to like the iTunes music store, but I don't. It's not just the DRM thing, though that's a lot of it. (If Borders goes under, I can still play Orphans. If Apple goes under, I can't play anything I bought off them.)
Blah.
OK, that's not quite true. They occasionally get played in a car, and they're a handy format for lending to friends.
My CD collection has deteriorated into a completely disorganized mess, and it's not worth the time to organize it.
I want to like the iTunes music store, but I don't. It's not just the DRM thing, though that's a lot of it. (If Borders goes under, I can still play Orphans. If Apple goes under, I can't play anything I bought off them.)
Blah.
