Coldplay X&Y, the Evil Corporate Demons Best Buy & Napster, and Windows Media Player
In a move that is not considered "normal" to a metalhead, I purchased the new Coldplay CD yesterday, as I am one of the many fans of their music.
I do most of my CD shopping at Best Buy since out of the cheap places, they have the best selection. Shopping there, you must avoid the goons as they ask you every 35 seconds if you need help finding anything. Luckily, since I's dun gradjuated the 3rd grade, I know how alphabetical order works. One day I will have to ask if they have the Lollipop Lust Kill CD, and see the goon hobble over to the L's in the rock section, and see it is not between Lindsey Lohan and Loverboy.
Lo and behold, there is a little piece of cardboard in the case, with a code for a free download of a song not available on the disc. All one must do is download it from the Satan's cousin's site, Napster. So, I do it. I re-install the Napster software. I download the track after entering my registration code.
The damn file is .wma. "Copy Protected" .wma at that. The programs I use, iTunes and Musicmatch, can't convert it to .mp3, or even play it for that matter. The song will only play using windows media player. I like to listen to music using iTunes. Its a better program for random listening at the comp. I like burning music with Musicmatch, it makes the best discs.
What is a boy to do? Simple. Burn the track onto a CD using Lucifer's program Window's Media Player. Rip the track from burned CD onto my hard drive, using the program of my choice, as an mp3. Now, I can listen to the song, and burn it, with the programs I like to use.
So, my "free" song cost me 15 minutes of my time, and one blank CD-R (ARV $0.20US). The feeling of saying fuck you to the evil corporate idiots who think putting something as a copy protected file that won't play in all programs though, is priceless.
So, here is my shout out, once again. Fuck you Best Buy. Fuck you Napster. Fuck you at Microsoft who believe in .wma's and try to force people to use Windows Media Player.
I do most of my CD shopping at Best Buy since out of the cheap places, they have the best selection. Shopping there, you must avoid the goons as they ask you every 35 seconds if you need help finding anything. Luckily, since I's dun gradjuated the 3rd grade, I know how alphabetical order works. One day I will have to ask if they have the Lollipop Lust Kill CD, and see the goon hobble over to the L's in the rock section, and see it is not between Lindsey Lohan and Loverboy.
Lo and behold, there is a little piece of cardboard in the case, with a code for a free download of a song not available on the disc. All one must do is download it from the Satan's cousin's site, Napster. So, I do it. I re-install the Napster software. I download the track after entering my registration code.
The damn file is .wma. "Copy Protected" .wma at that. The programs I use, iTunes and Musicmatch, can't convert it to .mp3, or even play it for that matter. The song will only play using windows media player. I like to listen to music using iTunes. Its a better program for random listening at the comp. I like burning music with Musicmatch, it makes the best discs.
What is a boy to do? Simple. Burn the track onto a CD using Lucifer's program Window's Media Player. Rip the track from burned CD onto my hard drive, using the program of my choice, as an mp3. Now, I can listen to the song, and burn it, with the programs I like to use.
So, my "free" song cost me 15 minutes of my time, and one blank CD-R (ARV $0.20US). The feeling of saying fuck you to the evil corporate idiots who think putting something as a copy protected file that won't play in all programs though, is priceless.
So, here is my shout out, once again. Fuck you Best Buy. Fuck you Napster. Fuck you at Microsoft who believe in .wma's and try to force people to use Windows Media Player.
posted by Michael at 6/09/2005 05:40:00 PM
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1 Comments:
I have been forced to pull that ploy as well...I use musicmatch, but to get to the tunes that you've bought through their store you have to be logged in, and that messes up when a play list is running. So I burn the songs, rip them, and listen to them hassle free.
And you are not alone in your hatred of the .wma files. They are evil, and their kind ought be purged from this land.
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