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MariettaBrookline
10/09/09

In reply to Apple to Indie Labels: iTunes LP Is Out of Your League
Let's say you take the LP idea over to a no-name freelance graphic designer/developer. Guess what...they'll charge you by the hour. In order to perfect it, make it visually appealing, really allow the artist to portray themselves and reach millions and millions of iTunes users they know they could charge you for it. An we are talking about a no name developer. Interactive applications, customer covers and interfaces and hosting is all, I believe iTunes has every right to charge 10K!
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John Herrman
10/09/09

@MariettaBrookline: "and after seeing how incredibly simple the actual LP files are, started looking into making some himself"

The dude just wanted to have some of his designer-y friends make him an LP. I don't think that would've touched $10,000, if even $1,000, and there's no technical barrier. Apple CAN charge fees like this, sure, but I don't see why they should.
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STiger
10/08/09

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"Turns out, it might be lame for musicians too"

So lame that it can encode MP3s?
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OCEntertainment
10/09/09

@STiger: Bah dum tshh!
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The Amazing Ant
10/08/09

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What bugs me is that I preordered the new Paramore album back in July, got the "Deluxe Edition Box Set" for $50, and the iTunes LP copy for $15 has songs I don't.

What. The. Crap.
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00000000
10/08/09

@The Amazing Ant: That's what you get when you let your heart win.
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JustinPM
10/08/09

@The Amazing Ant: I wouldn't feel left out, the iTunes LPs absolutely suck. I pre-ordered the new Muse album (which is horrendous, but aside from that) and the thing can just as easily be put together on a website. Nothing really "ground-breaking" there.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@JustinPM: I don't understand why anyone would preorder something that technically cannot run out of stock.
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PCGUY727
10/08/09

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fuck itunes. i will forever be buying cd's!

-lossless backup
-no drm (yes, itunes still has drm in the form of a proprietary codec)
-a physical product.

edit: I HAVE A RED BOX!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@PCGUY727: Only protected AAC is proprietary. AAC is wide open, and is adopted by some of the biggest players.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/08/09

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Hey, I actually have that Doors album.
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player_of_games
10/08/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Yes indeed. It's a popular one. I still remember which shop I bought it in.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/08/09

@player_of_games: Me too. I stole it from one of my brothers.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

In reply to Apple to Indie Labels: iTunes LP Is Out of Your League
I decided to buy Muse's Resistance (awesome freaking album BTW) through iTunes, and it's also "LP". Overall, the LP part is supremely pointless, but I love the album so much I'm having a hard time caring about the deficiencies in the whole package for its namesake. What does irk me, now that this article is posted, is that there's so much special treatment for something that amounts to little more than jack shit.
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Identity (Metric)
10/08/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Awesome freaking album, indeed.
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rjp: This is my rebuttal
10/08/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I went out and bought the CD/DVD double pack, paid less than it is going for on iTunes, and got a sweet 12" lithograph of the album art. I ripped it as soon as I got home.

Aside from iTunes LP being a terrible idea, I like most of the album except, oddly enough, I cannot stand the title track.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@rjp: This is my rebuttal: It's my least favorite out of the album as well. United States of Eurasia is so so, until the end where it turns into a lovely cover. Exogenesis 1-3: sublime.
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OMG! Ponies!
10/08/09

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iTunes LP is great. You pay a little bit more, but you get jpegs and the music sounds so awesome coming out of the iPod earbuds. Totally worth the extra cost.

When I was listen to an iTunes LP on the subway last weekend, it sounded awesome. Much better than anything anyone else has. Even on a loud subway train with Apple's incomparable white buds.

Apple is THE BEST!!!!
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Aristeia
10/08/09

@OMG! Ponies!: holy ironic equines, batman! my sarcasm detector is reading off the charts!
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Nelson
10/08/09

@Aristeia: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.

(Sarcasm detector explodes)
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@OMG! Ponies!: How's about you stop sucking on the aluminum phallic and start opening your eyes man. Apple has you so brainwashed you probably have tons of old DRM'd files and you happily bent over and paid over $1k with each sitting to have the logic board on your shitty iBook replaced. I know your type. You probably hug your G3 at night, and who knows what you're planning to do with your Macbook Pro when Betty Page is finally etched into it.

You make me sick. Sick and afraid for the rest of the humanity that might catch this Maclust virus that seems to be spreading.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/08/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Dammit! You had to go and drink the apple flavored Kool-Aid, didn't you!

Someone call Ballmer. Let him know we lost another one..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/08/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Actually I know you were just kidding because you mentioned the subway. Everyone knows you are a highly paid, highly esteemed fancy pants lawyer. There's no way you'd be caught dead in the subway, or mobile bathrooms as we like to call 'em. When you're not riding around in that awesome, environmentally friendly hybrid car, mounted police officers magically appear wherever you are, as if summoned by some kind of equine telepathy. They ferry you around atop their majestic steeds. All the while, you're gazing down on us poor heathens, waving a cupped hand and gracing us with your presence. Showering us with affection not unlike a master patting a beloved pet dog on it's head..
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