30 Mar 2007 0906H

Some observations: iTunes’ “Complete My Album”; Banned In China

Well, this solves the question whether people still use the word, “album”: iTunes now offers you the chance to buy the rest of an album if you like the single(s) you’ve bought. But do I notice some price inflation for selected albums? For instance, Hoobastank’s the Reason, the feelgood album of the Summer of ‘05, can be completed for $7, but, O.A.R’s Stories of a Stranger for a whopping $14? The worst offender, I’m almost ashamed to admit, is Jefferson Airplane’s Hits, for $16. Argh. Just the single, please. If that’s the discount I hate to see what the real price will be. But an interesting pricing structure though that incentivizes the user to buy the album earlier than later! Cunning, even.

This site is not yet banned in China. Just thought you should know. Interesting concept. The Chinese firewall is manned by the largest internet security team the world has ever known. Like its namesake, seems designed to keep the people inside the nation than fend against barbarians, and like all such measures will be doomed to fail. Good fences don’t make good neighbors, like our brother, Robert Frost, once wrote:

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down. I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
but it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself.

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