Beleaguered “Napster has increased the subscription fees for its digital music service by about 30%, from $9.95 per month to $12.95 per month, the company said in an e-mail to subscribers,” Mark Hefflinger reports for Digital Media Wire.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Just give up the charade already, sheesh.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “HMCIV” for the heads up.]
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ChrissyOne,
Are you being coy, or have you never heard that rather crude old saying? And you think I say the oddest things? Those are coherent compared to the things I think. Odd is putting it mildly. I’m certifiable.
You saw NO humor in Zune Tang’s statement? Come on, are you being obstinate?
ChrissyOne,
Yeah, and with a cape. He is so flamboyant and egotistical.
ChrissyOne,
If you had a clone, would she be CO2?
But you’ve probably been asked that before.
@ LorD1776
No, I’m being koi. And I’m not the only one that’s all wet.
@ LorD1776
When they made me, they threw away the mold.
Only a little grew back.
For 12,95 dollars a month, you can buy roughly 12 albums a year and someone else gets them when you die. Or you get all, but in the end you get nothing.
When the big vinyl disc of life comes to the end for my dad, I’m gonna have discographies from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Allman Brothers, Elvis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc.
Masa
Good thing you’re dad has enough sense not to let you “borrow” them now. My son borrowed EVERY one of those from me (save Elvis) and left them in some girls apartment…who had moved when WE went back to get them. Around 125 albums. Good thing I didn’t have life insurance on him………
ChrissyOne,
A moldy ornamental fish wearing seashells, red and blue tights and a cape. My odd mind is truly boggled.
TT,
My sister borrowed all of my original Beatles 45s and left them on the rear window shelf of my dad’s car. In July. You can imagine the results.
Hey,
Some people like Fords, some like Chevys, some like pcs, and some like subscription. Its not a bad thing, just something different.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
Hey, I enjoy owning my music but I am looking at some of the mp3 sites like emusic.
Regarding the post reprinted below, please note that “Zune Tang®” and “Ottmar Mergenthaler” share the same IP address that does not match that of “ChrissyOne.”
“MDN-ers check it out — I am 95% certain Zune Tang® and ChrissyOne are the same! Their posts came in at the same time. The jig is nearly up.The 5% uncertainty is only because ligatures weren’t mentioned in both posts. That would have sealed the deal. Hmmmmmm.”
Lord
I learned that the hard way, too. 1968, my new Monkees record, the back of my dad’s red Galaxy 500. A six year old crying. The tears are all coming back…..
Also, when my uncle was about 14, he found out that my grandfathers 78’s of Glenn Miller, Hank Williams and such made great frisbees. Until they broke.
ElderNorm,
I’ve been using eMusic for sometime, and they aren’t bad. They don’t have the big label names, but are DRM free and have decent sound quality. The main thing I don’t like is their use-it-or-lose-it policy. I usually have to split up an album to get my monthly number of songs. It’s a pain. I don’t see why you can’t carry over a few song picks to the next period.
Thanks, MDN. You can do that for C1, but not when Frank/SidneyStephen was hounding me with aliases?
I guess that would’ve ruined the show….
TT,
My dad had a ’57 Chrysler New Yorker. It had an underdash record player. I think it took little 33 1/3 records. Had a 20 pound tone arm.
About 78’s: My stepmother got pissed at my old man once and did the same thing. I remember she was like a cross between OddJob from Goldfinger and a crazed ninja. He lost a few Glenn Millers too.
Ah, the good old days.
@ Ottmar Mergenthaler
PWNED!!!
My mother’s entire record collection, save for the few Beatles and other albums I had secretly stolen, were ruined when my incontinent cat urinated all over them when I was 16. Any my mom was hip. All her Stones, Led Zep, Clapton, Queen, Elton John, Bee Gees… all of it gone. Like 150 records.
@ TT
I think I need a kleenex… 🙁
TT,
“but not when Frank/SidneyStephen was hounding me with aliases”
That/Those DIRTY BASTARD/S !!!
Does that help, buddy?
Too bad, so sad.
ZuneTang, I can see why you picked it up at a outdoor (flea?) market.
http://chinagrabber.com/browseproducts/15-PCS-2.4–1GB-MP4—ZOON-2.html
Ugly. UGLY. UGLY!
ChrissyOne,
“save for the few Beatles and other albums I had secretly stolen”
You did give them back didn’t you?
Lord
I’ve got a picture of an underdash player, but I think it only played 45s. Mid 60s. Totally groovy.
ChrissyOne,
“my incontinent cat urinated all over them”
There was a song written about that incident.
I believe it was called ‘Smelly Cat’.
ericdano,
That’s the one. Pretty sweet, huh? That’s the MP3 player that will take Apple out of business. Buh-bye Apple.
Ottmar Mergenthaler is sending messages from the grave? I don’t think so.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Now they will have even fewer customers..
I never understood how these “all you can eat” music rental schemes compensated the artists who produce the content. After Napster and the record label take their cut of the $10 or $13 monthly rental fee, and I’ve downloaded over 10,000 songs from 1000 different artists, what does each artist get? Two cents? Does Napster even keep track of what is being downloaded?