The Dangers of iTunes

I've been at my computer more than usual the past couple days, in large part due to an illness that left me feeling like I was hit by a convoy of trucks. However, because I also felt like my head was filled with water (someday, get a box of latex gloves, and using the faucet for your bathtub see for yourself just how much water those will hold. My carefully controlled experiments filled 1/3 to 1/2 of the tub when the glove finally popped. That is how my head felt), I haven't yet updated my blog.

Today, I learned the dangers of iTunes, which is a very versatile mp3 player. I learned how with one click, I can see an entire album of music, and with one more click I can see an iMix which contains this song. Thus I can be looking at a whole list of songs that I may very well be interested in purchasing. It is the perfect marriage in targeted marketing and impulse buying, in software that came free from my computer, and was robust enough a mp3 player to supplant that which I had been using.

If you care to see the iMix I created, you can click here. Doubtless, more will be coming soon. I was sad to see that many of the songs I had did not register for some reason.

Props to Apple, because today I paid $10 for music I might not have otherwise found. DSL can be dangerous.