On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:24:44 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"sean trost" wrote in message
. com...

as for downloading music. I used to be partial to Kazaa lite. but am
leaning towards napster again or Itunes. As these sites actually
support the music biz. and 99 cents per song aint bad.
all the best

A buck per song is not bad? Are you nuts? That is as much or more than you
would pay for a factory made cd, even more, when you consider the cost of
the blank data disk.

It's only overpriced if you assume all the songs on a CD are of equal
value. Most are not. If you just want two or three great songs, spending
$1 each makes more sense than shelling out $15 for the three good songs and
12 awful ones. Makes even more sense if the three good songs happen to be
on different albums.

Of course, picking and choosing just a couple of songs from an album can
make you miss out on some unexpected gems. Often, my favorite song on a CD
is not the one I bought the album for.

The cost of the blank data disk is trivial on a per-song basis. I casually
collect LPs and tapes of old flying songs from the wars of the past
century, and have been copying them to my hard disk and burning compilation
CDs (gotta have SOMETHING to sing along with, on the way to the airport).
I can generally cram at least twenty of these on a single CD.


Ron "Stand to your glasses" Wanttaja