The Opinionated Bastard

While I think you’d have to be crazy to shell out full price for a copy of the Team America soundtrack, shelling out $.99 for America F**k Yeah or I’m So Ronery is probably worth it.

Though its pretty weird that people who bought those songs also bought Has Been by William Shatner.

Links to iTunes:

Team America Soundtrack

America F**k Yeah

I’m So Ronery

Has Been

Though perhaps the weirdest thing of all is that I ended up following the link to Has Been, and I enjoyed some of the songs…Shatner can’t sing, he sort of does these dramatic readings over the songs, but they’re still fun.

This single song, which just has some cool drumming:

A Marilyn Manson Greatest Hits CD:

The Marilyn Manson CD was the big surprise for me. I once heard him live and thought he was terrible, but the Matrix Soundtrack kind of made me a convert since I kind of liked those selections. I don’t quite like him enough of one to buy the individual albums, so the Greatest Hits was a good deal.

And I found out that when John Cusack says “I will now sell 5 copies of the “The Three EP’s” by the Beta Band, that’s “the Three EP’s” is an album name:

For you R&B fans, a while back a made an iMix of all the original songs from the Commitments soundtrack:

Only $7.99:

Quote, hat tip: La Shawn

I don’t think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be. I think you can draw parallels here with the computer — here, too, Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position.

If you’re thinking about getting an iPod, here’s my advice:

I have 4 iPods.

1 is my wife’s mini, which she is loving right now.

2 are the 40GB models

1 is the Shuffle.

I use the Shuffle the most. It’s the cheapest, lightest, etc. In practice, while it was nice to have my entire CD collection available, I was always selecting everything and shuffling anyways. So having 10+ hours of music in one tiny lightweight thing works out better then having to lug around even as something as small as the iPod. Every few hours of listening, I recharge it and swap out whatever was on there for a new 10 hours.

So for weight and simplicity, I like the Shuffle the best.

On the other hand, the mini works better for my wife, because she likes to listen to books on tape, and she’s more selective then I am about music. So with the mini, she can have one book on tape, and several hours of music, and she’s good to go.

Quote, hat tip: La Shawn

I don’t think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be. I think you can draw parallels here with the computer — here, too, Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position.

If you’re thinking about getting an iPod, here’s my advice:

I have 4 iPods.

1 is my wife’s mini, which she is loving right now.

2 are the 40GB models

1 is the Shuffle.

I use the Shuffle the most. It’s the cheapest, lightest, etc. In practice, while it was nice to have my entire CD collection available, I was always selecting everything and shuffling anyways. So having 10+ hours of music in one tiny lightweight thing works out better then having to lug around even as something as small as the iPod. Every few hours of listening, I recharge it and swap out whatever was on there for a new 10 hours.

So for weight and simplicity, I like the Shuffle the best.

On the other hand, the mini works better for my wife, because she likes to listen to books on tape, and she’s more selective then I am about music. So with the mini, she can have one book on tape, and several hours of music, and she’s good to go.