Best Buy Rhapsody music preview system in stores |
Loading ...Last night we went to pick up a few things from Best Buy and in the music section I noticed a customer previewing music using Rhapsody:
Those who think that legal online music is going away because of Kazaa, forget it. The RIAA has won at least one of its battles. Personally I use (listening to it right now in fact), and recommend, the Best Buy branded listen.com Rhapsody which is available here Best selection and seems to be the fastest to get new titles of all the legal online services. As a recent example I cited the 3-CD of Rush in Rio which is available on Rhapsody in its entirety sans one song and still not available on Napster 2.0 or iTunes.
I think there is a musical tidal wave out there ‘at sea’ that most ‘land lubbers’ don’t have the slightest inkling of yet… Indie (independent) music - NON RIAA stuff… a complete heart of the dragon bypass that will bring real creative freedom to artists, as well as real income. Income that won’t be shared with the mind-numb anti-creative right wing censoring corporate sharks in the music ‘biz’, such as ‘Clear Channel’. And the public is eager for it. They know that the drab undigestible noise that they are being wet nursed with can’t be the entirety of the world’s creative genus. More Indie sites are popping up every day offering NON RIAA sources, that don’t require any unfair payments to the real ‘pirates’ - the bloated conformist corporations out there who are attempting to suck the life blood out of art. But real art will always find a way. The bigger they are the harder they’ll fall, one and all.
Comment by logspirit — November 26, 2003 @ 6:37 am PST
As I predicted, from C-Net:
“we’re hard at work building a free music download site that will address the needs of the independent artist community and the music downloading community. Launching in early 2004, music.download.com will offer artists free file hosting and a presence on the Web, and will give music fans free access to a universe of downloadable songs.”
See and sign up early:
http://music.download.com/
Comment by logspirit — November 26, 2003 @ 10:20 pm PST