iTunes Store: You're Digital...but Still Provincial
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...from the "This'll-Learnya-to-Post-Your-Thoughts-Quicker" Dept: I just heard a piece on Day to Day with Alex Chadwick ( the radio equivalent of the eZine "*Slate*":http://slate.com ) that reminded me of a conversation I'd had a month or so ago while chatting with a friend over in Europe who asked me to cop one of those iTunes gift cards and added extra emphasis on the "US" part...because tunage offered digitally on iTunes in one country aren't necessarily offered in another (there are 20 different countries which have their own rendition of the iTunes Store)...that vexes me...I'm terribly, terribly vexed...
...that wasn't the first time that someone overseas asked me that question but I never gave it a lot of thought, admittedly, because I've got tons of tunes already but I'm getting hungry for fresh fare and there's a grip of new shite coming out of the UK, Germany and Japan that's interesting that I might be forced to "acquire" by other means which leads me to believe that the digital music folk haven't fully grasped the scrape that the film industry that's figuratively across the street (and literally in this town) are trying to climb out of...I think that international licensing laws have a hand in this and it all sounds counter-intuitive to the whole spirit of the digital music experience... are smaller, mom and pop repositories of rare digital cuts in the offing? hmmm...
...all of this speaks to the fact that, still, a handful of Boss Hoggs want to have control over all the music on the juke at the Boar's Nest...that there's a roundtable of iTunes Stores who keep a grip over their fiefdoms but not too tightly because the gift card thing appears to be a workaround but what about those out there who don't have peeps in foreign lands? (17 second song samples don't mean squat if you can't get the tune you're listening to, yo)...the powers-that-are better tweak their business model, get their heads and hind-parts wired or the music downloading lot will dosey-do right on around their asses...case in point, on today's show I heard samples of a couple of Japanese bands that really buttered my popcorn like Japanistan and King Brothers...check out this video I found for "Killer Tune" performed by Japan's Straightener:
...that wasn't the first time that someone overseas asked me that question but I never gave it a lot of thought, admittedly, because I've got tons of tunes already but I'm getting hungry for fresh fare and there's a grip of new shite coming out of the UK, Germany and Japan that's interesting that I might be forced to "acquire" by other means which leads me to believe that the digital music folk haven't fully grasped the scrape that the film industry that's figuratively across the street (and literally in this town) are trying to climb out of...I think that international licensing laws have a hand in this and it all sounds counter-intuitive to the whole spirit of the digital music experience... are smaller, mom and pop repositories of rare digital cuts in the offing? hmmm......all of this speaks to the fact that, still, a handful of Boss Hoggs want to have control over all the music on the juke at the Boar's Nest...that there's a roundtable of iTunes Stores who keep a grip over their fiefdoms but not too tightly because the gift card thing appears to be a workaround but what about those out there who don't have peeps in foreign lands? (17 second song samples don't mean squat if you can't get the tune you're listening to, yo)...the powers-that-are better tweak their business model, get their heads and hind-parts wired or the music downloading lot will dosey-do right on around their asses...case in point, on today's show I heard samples of a couple of Japanese bands that really buttered my popcorn like Japanistan and King Brothers...check out this video I found for "Killer Tune" performed by Japan's Straightener:
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