March 26, 2006

Oh, Yes, I'm Alive

...just playing around with my free trial subscription to the Rhapsody music service.

My vote: I'm lovin' it (please don't sue me, McDonald's - I didn't even include your cheesy ass jingle when I said it!).

In short, for $10 a month, I'm effectively leasing a ton of tunes and storing them, and their respective digital rights management mumbo jumbo magic, as 160kbps WMA files. I can also stream any of the 1.5 million songs they have, create personalized radio stations, dream up playlists, and - best of all - search for the arcana of college radio from years ago, items no longer in print and beyond the reach of a Torrent search.

So, my Rhapsody library now ranges from old Alice in Chains to the Beastie Boys to Concrete Blonde to Eddie from Ohio to Finley Quaye to House of Love to Matthew Sweet to Sisters of Mercy to Suzanne Vega to Willie Nelson. A bit of a shotgun approach to music, I suppose.

Now, back to my downloading...

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