iTunes is going to kill me. It’s going to take all my money turf me out on the street and I’m going to freeze during the winter.
I’m quite a big music fan and have been since a fairly young age. Aside from the occasional blip in music buying (my first CD was Cotton Eye Joe by the Rednex) I’ve built up a fairly decent collection of CDs and vinyl.
The good thing about physical items like CDs are the look and feel, the restrictions it places on you for buying stuff because you can’t be bothered to shop and the paper inserts. The bad things are that you don’t have as much choice as online.
Now that I’ve transfered all my CDs across to my iPod I’ve started buying a few things from iTunes too. I tended to stay away from iTunes though since I’m quite old-fashioned really and like to have something physical in my hand. Now that I’m getting into iTunes though it’s flipped the whole paradigm on it’s head. You have a pretty much unlimited choice, you don’t have to head to the shops and you get instantaneous gratification. The bad things are the lack of a physical item but I can get over that.
The problem with instant gratification though is it’s addictive. It’s only really a problem for the consumer, I bet Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank! Take last night for instance. I sat down and watched School of Rock with Jack Black. (That’s the film had Jack Black in it, I was actually sat with my girlfriend.) I though, “That’s quite cool, why have I never bought a Tenacious D album?” 5 mins later it was in my collection as a digital download. I also nearly did it this morning. Woke up with the radio alarm and Arctic Monkey’s Teddy Picker was on. So I thought I might by their latest album.
So if you see a little badge appear in the bottom of my blog with a registered charity number then chances are it’s because I need some money to pay my mortgage.
