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June 22, 2003
Musician's response to iTunes
In an article on salon.com, the ability to download single tracks for 99 cents is examined. Critics and artists are saying that it reduce the exposure of their music. Artists' view all the extra songs on a cd besides the main singles will only be heard if music is bought by the disc and not by the track. Typically they feel they can be much more creative and experiemental with those tracks and we all know how some tracks take some getting wamed up to before we really enjoy them. In addition to that, a lot of songs don't even start to shine until after the 30 second preview iTunes offers is over.
iTunes may not be doing much for consumers except making it more acceptable to overcharge people for music. If it's going to come down to paying 99 cents per track or $10 for an album without artwork, the least they could do is offer to send you a case and some liner notes for a couple bucks or allow it to be downloaded.
Posted by beamz at June 22, 2003 10:38 PM
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