twesterm on 14 May 2009
| sethnintendo said: @twestern, ah yea I kind of forget that you can upload iPods with mp3s/wma. Why do so many people buy DRM songs from iTunes then? I guess they didn't have luxury of ripping their own / friends cds to their computers to load on the player. |
It's easy to buy from iTunes and you don't have to buy the entire CD.
The DRM music is a pain, but:
- It's easily stripped off either through the many programs that exist or simply burning it to a CD and then burning it back to MP3
- It's cheaper than buying the CD. While a new CD can cost anywhere from, what, $14-20, an album on iTunes cost $7-10.
- I don't have to buy an entire album if I don't want to. There are very many times when I don't want an entire album, I just want a song or two. This saves me a few dollars since I don't have to bother with the other 10+ songs I don't want.
- iTunes lets you complete an album for a reduced price. If I bought a few songs from an album and then later decide to buy that album, they deduct what you've already spent on that album from the album price.
Yeah, iTunes is a memory hog and the DRM sucks (which, again, is going away soon), but it's not as bad as people make it out to be.
