12/21/2004 11:31:00 AM|||Joe|||

With the top-of-the-line iPod, "You can fit 10,000 songs on it," Gorog says. But "to do that would cost you $10,000 if you bought the songs from Apple. With our plan, customers can get 10,000 songs on their device for $180 a year. It's an enormous value."

Is this guy insane? This is how they're going to appeal to consumers? How many of us even have the desire to own 10,000 songs?

I know there's some people like that, but jeez.

I mean, I buy maybe an album a month of iTMS. Maybe. So I don't buy music like I used to. But still, let's do the math. That's about $10 an album. $120 a year. For 180 songs, give or take (assuming an average of 15 tracks per album). It works out differently if you buy a lot of singles. But I'm the kind of person who likes albums. If I just like 1 or 2 songs, I usually don't bother.

So what's the use of the iPod drives? I use the extra space on my iPod as storage. We'll film our skits, capture the footage on Pete's computer, and transfer the dv files to my iPod. I take it home and edit.

I already have like 2,000+ songs, mostly from my CD collection. To listen to them all would take weeks. I'm sure I'll eventually fill it up, but a subscription model just seems silly to me. I guess some people will like it. I bought a Strokes album a few weeks ago and I've listened to it almost non-stop since. Just the way I do it. A subscription would be a waste for me.

I won't even go into the stupidity of equating number of songs with value. 10,000 lousy songs for $180 is still a waste of money.|||110365503587577216|||10,000 songs?