{"id":1168,"date":"2003-05-06T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T04:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/06\/itunes-man\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:10:34","slug":"itunes-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/06\/itunes-man\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14717,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/apple.slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=63243&amp;cid=5890694&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>(by Scott Taylor, with apologies to Billy Joel, sung to the tune of &#8216;Piano Man&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nine o&#8217; clock at the iTunes store,<br \/>\nA phenomenal crowd&#8217;s logging on,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an old man on AOL<br \/>\nFinding music from ages bygone.<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;Steve can you play me a memory?<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure how it goes,<br \/>\n&#8220;But I typed in a track and got album names back!<br \/>\n&#8220;And I&#8217;m not even wearing my clothes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.<br \/>\nSell us a song, you&#8217;re the iTunes man,<br \/>\nSell us a song tonight.<br \/>\nWell, we&#8217;re all in the mood for a melody,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n<p>Now Claude at Vivendi&#8217;s a friend of mine<br \/>\nAnd his business is selling CDs.<br \/>\nAnd knows the solution for store distribution,<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s worried about MP3s.<br \/>\nHe says &#8220;Steve I believe this is killing us!<br \/>\n&#8220;All these pirates don&#8217;t pay us a dime.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well I&#8217;m sure that you could be a billionaire,<br \/>\n&#8220;If you could sell music online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.<br \/>\nSell us a song, you&#8217;re the iTunes man,<br \/>\nSell us a song tonight.<br \/>\nWell, we&#8217;re all in the mood for a melody,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n<p>Now Paul is an iPod enthusiast<br \/>\nWho listens to Jazz with his wife<br \/>\nAnd he&#8217;s chatting with Maxine, who&#8217;s still in the rap scene<br \/>\nAnd probably will be for life.<br \/>\nAnd the waitress is downloading Dixie Chicks<br \/>\nAs the dial-up man slowly gets Stones<br \/>\nYes they&#8217;re sharing the bandwidth from Akamai<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s better than P2P clones.<\/p>\n<p>Sell us a song, you&#8217;re the iTunes man,<br \/>\nSell us a song tonight.<br \/>\nWell, we&#8217;re all in the mood for a melody,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n<p>Its a pretty good crowd for just Macintosh<br \/>\nAnd the PC guys give me a smile<br \/>\nCause they know that iTunes will be Windows-bound soon<br \/>\nIf they just can hold out for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And the AAC sounds like originals<br \/>\nAnd rights management isn&#8217;t a pain,<br \/>\nAnd they sit at the screens of their iTunes machines<br \/>\nAnd say &#8220;Man, this is worse than cocaine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sell us a song, you&#8217;re the iTunes man,<br \/>\nSell us a song tonight.<br \/>\nWell, we&#8217;re all in the mood for a melody,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve got the pricing just right.<\/p>\n<p>(found on <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=63243&amp;cid=5890694\" title=\"\/.: With apologies to Billy Joel\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sell us a song, you&#8217;re the iTunes man, \/ Sell us a song tonight. \/ Well, we&#8217;re all in the mood for a melody, \/ And you&#8217;ve got the pricing just 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