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Does anyone remember good old days when you bought a vinyl disk and already by playing it just once you necessarily damaged the thing irreparably, because some kind of little nail (!) went intently through that funny little groove?
Or when you made a record of your own on a clunky big tape recorder machine and where quite lucky if in the end the hissing noise was just not so loud as to completely spoil the music?
And now you get the finest and latest music from wherever you happen to stay at the moment and in better quality than wasn't even faintly imaginable when I was a child - which is 30 years ago, I admit it - and you get it for fairly little money and you can whithout any ado and without any loss in quality make a number of copies no normal person will ever, ever need under any even faintly normal circumstances.
Hello? Anyone else finding it just a little bit ridiculous how anyone can complain about the current state of things with iTunes and iPods in the way some fine people do?
Of course, it sounds just fine to get even more than you get today.
Why not ask Apple to see to it that if you would like to experience a good rock band live after hearing their new song on your iPod they just send you a couple of tickets to a gig in your neighborhood for free? After all, you've already paid for the song! Almost one buck!
But hey - if what you've got is already just about fantastic, why not be just content for a moment, pause a little and say to yourself: Hasn't technology and clever thinking by Steve Jobs done all of us quite good so far?
In other words: When you're doing very, very fine indeed, it does not make much sense to keep complaining about practically nothing. Does anyone actually know anyone with more than two oder three computers (of their own, that is) to disseminate their music to?
Really, folks, some of you need to focus a bit more on things that do matter instead of fighting battles over nothing. All in the world can not be for free, and that is good news, in my personal belief.
