The other day I was on Shift and couldn't believe how cheap a subscription was and before I knew it I had signed up for a subscription. Price for the impulse buy is the moral of that story. FYI: I'd definitely impulse buy more CDs at $10CDN then at $18.

Update: The Shift story talks about a Rachel Smith so I clicked through to her IUMA site and downloaded some music (4 songs) and wrote a recommendation. Check her out.

Update on Sunday: Playing hockey tonight with a very bad hangover was a very bad idea.
8:56:19 PM   []

The NY Times magazine leads the pack with a long list of articles though the digital music critics tend to agree that the Where Music Will Be Coming From article is missing the mark. I'd of course debunk it for you but there is work to be done. But I would like to point out this paragraph which makes a strong case for Emergent Music:

The quality least plentiful in a world of rampant free copies is attention. Each year more than 30,000 new music titles are released (or rereleased) into a very cluttered head space of new movies, new TV shows, new books, new games, new Web sites. No matter what your musical appetite, there are not enough hours in a lifetime to listen to but a tiny fraction of the global supply. People will pay simply to have someone edit the music and recommend and present selected material to them in an easy and fun manner. That is why producers, labels and the related ecology of reviewers, catalogers and guides will continue to make a living: they counter our natural lack of attention for the 10 million albums we can expect to see in another 50 years. In the end, an awful lot of music will be sold in the territory of the free because it will be easier to buy music you really like than to find it for free.

The MSNBC article, In the dorms, where are the stereos? quotes the stat:

23 percent of the U.S. population aged 12 and over have downloaded a music or MP3 file off of the Internet.

Which if you believe copying music is illegal means that 23% of the US population should be fined/jailed. CNET also recently ran a story about music on campuses entitled Schools declare file-swapping truce.

And Yahoo has a piece on the new indie friendly Morpheous which I remain very skeptical about.

And now, back to work.

Update: And this PDF of what's on Beck's iPod is pretty cool. I'd love to see the playlists for all my favorite artists.
9:46:14 AM   []