Starbucks Music Store
p2pnet.net News:- Ace photographer Jim Goodman has a personal and professional interest in music, loves good coffee and has nerves of steel.
Starbucks has just launched a listen-while-you-sip feature. Customers can, if they so choose, plug into an HP tablet computer, dial up music supplied by the Big Five record labels and then burn a CD. Starbucks, HP and the labels firmly believe the service will bring droves of new customers to their various doors.
Only time will tell if they’ve got it right but in the meanwhile, camphone in hand, the intrepid Goodman approached the location nearest him – in this case the Hear Music Starbucks on the Third Street Promenade in Sant Monica, California and which, he believes, was the first Starbucks/HP/Big Five location. He thinks it may have been opened – appropriately – by HP ceo Carly Fiorina.
The nerves of steel bit comes in because there’s a rumour going around that Starbucks doesn’t like people taking pictures. But, nothing loathe, Goodman decided to risk it.
“The staff were all nice people and knew what they were talking about,” Jim told p2pnet. “A guy next to me was asking what the files were ripped as and what the differences between a .wav file and an mp3 were.”
We had a piece here suggesting sipping coffee and burning CDs don’t mix. But, Jim told us, Hear Music isn’t a Starbucks with a music store inside. Rather, it’s a music store with a Starbucks inside.
He’s writing a story on his impressions, so watch this space and for now, you’ll find the pictorial results on his personal web page here.
(Goodman is expecting a nastygram from Starbucks with stern instructions to immediately remove the offending material. So don’t walk, run ; )
