David RD Gratton

Why People Steal Music - You keep pissing us off

January 1, 2008

My wife and I just watched ONCE, a bloody wonderful movie. In fact one of the best movies we have watched in over 2 years. Probably longer. We LOVED it. The look of the film was real. The acting was natural and familiar. We could see/remember past friendships and relationships played out in the film. And we loved the music. Adored it. We loved the film and music so much, we wanted to buy the sound track right away. Since we have a bit of a hate on for iTunes (FairPlay is NOPLAY in our house), we decided to give Amazon's MP3 service a try.

First: I could buy the sound track on CD but not as an MP3 download. That sucks - I want it now - I'm hooked!
Fortunately Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova recorded most of the sound track as separate album called The Swell Season which is available as a download. Awesome. It's not exactly what I want but close enough.
I download the MP3 manager app, and buy the sound track, except - oh - I'm Canadian. Sorry this service is not available to me. Although I use Amazon.com on a monthly basis, I can not buy downloads. I can buy the physical CD, but not the MP3s.

Nice.

Oh. Look. Limewire has Once for download.

Hello. Who is in charge here. WAKE THE FUCK UP!

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