Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Apple's Devious U2 Album Giveaway Is Even Worse Than Spam Date: 19 Sep 2014 16:37:00 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <48529748432804550.777074bob_davis_retired-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oX/Nhg5GVUcLOj7zmjqpNgPk/QfZo0UrAgxma7xlwDIm92qjii Cancel-Lock: sha1:eLewTD1gsK6AdJxZWrXoQ0xvHtA= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:4989 On 2014-09-19, Oregonian Haruspex wrote: > Huge wrote: >> On 2014-09-17, Paul Sture wrote: >>> On 2014-09-16, Huge wrote: >>>> On 2014-09-16, Rich wrote: >>>> >>>>> The whole endeavor yearns >>>>> desperately to be a landmark new innovation for the music industry, >>>>> perhaps something along the lines of Radiohead's legitimately >>>>> earth-moving In Rainbows, which was self-released with variable pricing >>>>> in 2007 and remains the gold standard against which music industry >>>>> innovation is measured. >>>> >>>> Bunch of whiney shoe-gazers. >>> >>> FWIW I don't like RadioHead either but we had the choice whether to get >>> that album or not. >> >> There's a First World problem for you. >> > > You say this like it's a bad thing. It's irony. I suspect you septics don't do irony. (Like bronzy, only harder.) -- Today is Boomtime, the 43rd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3180 "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. Groucho Marx.