Heard the song before, but can’t remember ever seeing this video.

Not sure why I haven’t seen this music video before, but found it bizarre. Worth a watch!

While it’s good to see iTunes starting to sell all music as MP3s, I still don’t like iTunes or the prices they charge. The best thing to happen recently is Amazon selling MP3s in the UK, many new full albums are only £3. That’s less than the petrol it would cost to drive to my nearest music store.

I previously used, almost the perfect music model. I was a subscriber to Napster To Go (NTG), “Oh No!” I hear you cry, let me explain. I signed up for NTG after buying a Creative MP3 player and liked the idea of having as much music as I wanted for a set amount. The reality was it was clunky and I could only play the music on the player or the PC. I canceled my subscription.

Then some months later, I heard about a program to remove the Playforsure protection. I signed back up to try it out and it worked. I could download a WMA remove the protection then play it anywhere, I set Winamp to convert the WMA to an MP3 before it transferred it to my iPod, which I’d bought. I could play the music on anything. Yes there was quality loss, but not much and I said almost perfect.

I thought about downloading lots of music and  canceling the subscription but then I realised I liked being able to download the latest music each week, as it was released. So for 18 months I continued to pay the £15 a month for NTG (I could of just paid £10, I realise). Then Unfortunately for Napster and me, their software became totally unusable. I tried on multiple machines but the software kept crashing. Reluctantly I canceled my subscription, this was more than 6 months ago. I miss Napster, I no longer listen to as much music and don’t spend £15 on music a month anymore. I mainly use Last.FM or other online services to find and listen to music.

I want the perfect music distribution service:

So if anyone is listening, please allow me to subscribe to an all you can eat service that uses MP3s. Music industry people would say hell would freeze over first, but just look at my experience. I paid £15 every month for the convenience of being able to download and play my music anywhere. The public will keep paying each month for the convenience of knowing that at anytime, from anywhere, they could download any music they please. There would be no need for anyone to use Torrents, P2Ps or Newsgroups. Yes they may lose out on some people who spend more than £15, but they would gain so much more from people like me.

What do you think?