I'm not talking about that at all. You are comparing apples and oranges. I am talking about variety and different choices. I'll just give an example.
The album Dark Side of the Moon.
These are my options on Itunes:
For $10.00 I can buy the album in one format, M4A, at one bit rate, from one release of the album.
This is the list of what is available to me on the best private music tracker out there for this album all for free:
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon [1973] Bookmark
70s, ambient, progressive.rock, psychedelic, rock
[DL | RP] » Ogg / q6 / CD / US Capitol Records - 1994 10 2 months ago 56.38 MB 1 2 0
[DL | RP] » Ogg / q8 / CD / US Capitol Records - 1994 10 2 months ago 73.34 MB 1 1 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / CD / 30th Anniversary Edition - 2003 11 1 year ago 98.56 MB 288 31 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / Vinyl / MFSL UHQR 1-1017 - 1981 21 1 year ago 132.25 MB 60 10 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / CD / US Capitol Records - 1994 9 1 year ago 98.36 MB 97 13 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / CD / MFSL UDCD 517 - 1988 10 11 months ago 98.44 MB 32 6 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / CD / Sony Japan Black Triangle - 1983 26 4 months ago 128.54 MB 119 27 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / 320 / CD / UK Harvest - 1984 10 1 month ago 98.29 MB 2 1 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / US Capitol Records - 1994 11 1 year ago 74.53 MB 2,725 318 10
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / 30th Anniversary Edition - 2003 10 1 year ago 74.06 MB 132 18 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / Sony Japan Black Triangle - 1983 26 11 months ago 105.12 MB 198 31 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / 20th Anniversary Edition - 1993 9 9 months ago 73.87 MB 47 10 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / Vinyl / Japanese Harvest - 1973 46 6 months ago 134.30 MB 34 11 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / Vinyl / US Harvest - 1973 10 6 months ago 73.61 MB 66 18 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / MFSL UDCD 517 - 1988 13 3 months ago 72.48 MB 9 3 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / Vinyl / MFSL UHQR 1-1017 - 1981 17 3 months ago 74.23 MB 2 2 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / Vinyl / UK Harvest (Quadraphonic) - 1973 21 3 months ago 75.41 MB 3 3 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / DVD / Alan Parson's 4.1 - 2003 10 2 months ago 74.53 MB 16 6 1
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / UK EMI - 1994 10 1 month ago 74.48 MB 0 1 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V0 (VBR) / CD / UK Harvest - 1984 10 2 weeks ago 75.87 MB 0 2 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / CD / US Capitol Records - 1994 10 1 year ago 61.67 MB 48 7 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / Vinyl / MFSL UHQR 1-1017 - 1981 11 1 year ago 59.63 MB 32 3 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / CD / Sony Japan Black Triangle - 1983 26 2 months ago 91.13 MB 0 0 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / CD / UK EMI - 1994 9 1 month ago 59.47 MB 1 0 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / CD / UK Harvest - 1984 10 1 month ago 61.67 MB 1 2 0
[DL | RP] » MP3 / V2 (VBR) / CD / MFSL UDCD 517 - 1988 11 1 day ago 59.09 MB 0 1 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / DVD / Alan Parson's 4.1 - 2003 16 1 year ago 1.63 GB 157 36 1
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / Vinyl / MFSL UHQR 1-1017 - 1981 13 1 year ago 848.60 MB 630 81 3
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / SACD / Remastered - 2003 24 1 year ago 2.58 GB 243 37 3
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / Vinyl / Remastered - 1973 12 8 months ago 834.22 MB 55 13 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / SACD / Remastered - 2003 22 Never 949.65 MB 107 27 2
[DL | RP] » FLAC / 24bit Lossless / Vinyl / Remastered - 1973 46 Never 928.77 MB 115 27 1
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD / Remastered - 2003 15 Never 254.27 MB 702 81 1
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD / Remastered - 1981 16 Never 233.36 MB 201 19 1
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD / Remastered - 1988 12 Never 208.96 MB 187 23 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / CD / Remastered - 1984 10 Never 265.24 MB 49 8 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD / Remastered - 1983 26 Never 270.04 MB 340 68 3
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless (100%) / CD / Remastered - 1994 13 Never 238.15 MB 37 5 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless (100%) / CD / 1993 13 Never 244.11 MB 75 10 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Vinyl / 1973 18 Never 243.56 MB 31 0 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless (100%) / CD 14 Never 238.45 MB 17 0 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / DVD 12 Never 249.24 KB 4 0 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless (90%) / CD 12 Never 0.00 B 0 0 0
[DL | RP] » FLAC / Lossless / Vinyl 15 Never 0.00 B 0 0 0
Please explain to me why I would ever use Itunes when I have to pay more money for 1/20th of the options.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
