Music – a la carte or subscription?
Okay so I’m sitting here in between classes inside of wonderful Hanley Library, and I just finished reading something about the potential for Apple to integrate new subscription-based plans into iTunes. What that means is that, for a monthly/yearly fee, you’d be able to download all the music you wanted. The only drawback is you don’t have a physical copy of the music so if you stop paying the subscription for example, you’ll lose it all. This has been around for a while via services like Rhapsody and more recently the Zune, which lets you pay a monthly fee for unlimited music downloads from the Zune store, and I used to think it was cool. Now with Apple threatening to pull the same move I’m sort of concerned about everyone making this jump and then being unable to actually own music anymore.
When I heard the Zune had a subscription service where you could grab all you wanted so that, in theory, you could get a zune one day and have it full of music within a few hours, I thought it was pretty cool. Now I think I’ve sort of stopped loving the idea so much. It’s not secret that I download most of my music from Amazon these days, but the nicest thing about that is that I have physical MP3’s that I can share between devices. Also, if I decide I don’t want to be a customer of Amazon one day down the road I’ll still have my music. So really all I have to say is that I hope this music subscription thing doesn’t take off…please let me own my music!
Sorry for the quick unscheduled rant but I didn’t want to do a well thought-out post about this since I’ve already had other similar posts. The secondary purpose of this post is for me to remind anyone who’s reading that on Saturday I’ll have yet another game review. Come back and check it out! If you like what you read leave a comment on the post or email me at dmkemick(at)live(dot)com. Tomorrow’s review, just so you guys know in advance, will be of Condemned 2: Bloodshot for the Xbox 360. I don’t know if I’ll have another gaming review next weekend though, I haven’t really made any significant progress on the games I’ve been playing this week. Still, I plan to continue doing these reviews as regularly as I can.
As always, thanks for reading. 
