Empty Space

30GB, 80GB. Do we really need that much space for music? I don’t know, I only have 340 songs in my iPod. Only. I’ve come to realize that this new trend of the 80GBs has unleashed a competition among MP3 owners.

Everyday, I hear conversations that ago along these lines:

“I have x song sin my player”

“Really I have y in mine”

~~where x<y bu a significant amount.

Later on, the person with x number of songs will go and download as many songs as possible to reach and perhaps surpass y.

I’m trying to not fall into that contest, music loses its value.  But not it’s monetary value…

It seems like people are suddenly very open to music tastes, don’t take me wrong, I like open minded people but now buying music is done just to fill up those empty 80GBs. Good strategy by the music companies. Create a demand and the means by which to fulfill th demand.

Customer: I must find a way to fill up all this empty space! I ca’t let it go to waste, after all I spent 200 dollars on it

Seller: Well I can fix that. We have a large variety of songs available in different formats. Take three Beatles albums, and don’t forget the Platinum Deluxe Edition of Beatle Hits. It doesn’t matter that some sogs are repeated, it’s Platinum, remember? Still got empty space? Have some videos! Useless? Nah they’re hialrious. Besides think of the benefit it will fo you to watch them in a tiny screen! Ok? Well i see you have empty space still, come back next time and we’ll fill it up. Ok, buh bye!

Why are books so freakin’ expensive?

Why are books so freaking expensive? I went to Barnes and Noble today, looking for a good read. I hadn’t been in a bookstore in a long time; I usually use the library. But I felt like annotating something today, so I went to the bookstore.

I looked around the shelves of new fiction, scanning for something interesting. Aha, something that looked cool: The Alchemist. I’ve always wanted to read that book. I looked on the back, above the bar code: $15.00… for a paperback!

I went on my merry way, searching for another book… preferably something cheaper. I didn’t find any, at least none that attracted my interest. Finally I came a cross a shelf that had a giant $1.00 sign on top. Books for less than $10.00? Impossible! There were about six or seven books in abandoned there, obviously the rejected: conspiracy theory, wedding planning, tuna fishing, heavy metal culture, I can’t remember the last one. Only one fiction: The History Book. Didn’t look like it was the best, but hey, it was only one dollar; hard cover too. I can’t get a paperback that cheap at the Book Corral (gently used books, where I get all my books for lit class).

Ah well, inflation… guess it’s the library, the Book Corral. I don’t think I’ll ever find another $1.00 shelf again.