This is right on. The article talks about how most dudes and dudettes with ipods don't fill them up. I'm certainly never going to have 15,000 songs no matter how much the interwebs let me steal music. For one thing, my hard drive is full. Sorry, lappy is currently not accepting new music. For the next thing, I don't like the 60 gig ipod. There. I said it. It's too heavy. I liked the 15 gig four button row + scroll wheel better. And I don't need all the space. I consider myself to be a music "enthusiast" (as we qualify people in the world of selling passion), meaning a noticable amount of my free time is occupied by the hobby. In this sector: trying to find the next sonic thrill. Plus, having so much space dissuades one from organizing playlists and makes searching tedious. I just keep it on shuffle all the time which means I'm not listening to whole albums which means I'm being a lazy listener which I don't like. And I'm blaming it on the 60 gig rather than my child-of-the-interwebs-era attention span. Or I could blame it on Andrew Bird for setting a new standard for how many masterpieces must fill an album to make it worth listening to start to finish. Definitely not the last one-- that would be too unappreciative. I hope Andrew Bird and Neko Case get married. I would steal their baby. (Their solid gold baby.)
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What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby?
Maybe we'll never know.
Matt said...
1.) That Andrew Bird album really drops off towards the end. It ain't perfect.
2.) I certainly agree with the substance of the article. Howevers, the Rokr is too small, capacity-wise. Nano. That's the way to go.
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