p2pnet - rss feed: Sony and MacDonald’s
p2pnet.net News:- It’s déjà vu all over again - Napster II in Europe is revisisted as the mainstream media fall all over each other to carry Big Music’s message that the joyless online music ’stores’ it supplies and backs are all there is to online music.
Only this time, instead of Napster II it’s Apple’s iTunes.
Anyway - not to be outdone, Sony has arranged things so ‘product’ from the Big Five labels will be dished up with ‘product’ from McDonald’s in Canada, the US and Europe.
“Starting today in Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. (and in early July in Europe), if you buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal you’ll get a coupon code for a free download from Sony’s upcoming Sony Connect music service,” says Geek.com here.
Plastic music with plastic food.
Yum.
Maybe Samuel Goldwyn Films will also start giving out free passes to Super Size Me, a movie about Morgan Spurlock’s 30 days of eating nothing but ‘food’ from McDonald’s, “an experiment in bad living that frames a jaunty critique of junk gastronomy and corporate power,” as the New York Times puts it here.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:45 pm
Junk food and junk music. Why in the world people want to listen to music with their personal computer is beyond me. I realize there are some nice sound cards available for computers, but NOTHING will sound like a well engineered amplifier and speakers playing music from one of the plethora of inputs available these days. Digital music is all well and good, but music is an analog thing, and no amount of processing will make it sound closer to the real thing. When you can sit in a room and hear the instruments play each phrase, and be able to hear all the sounds associated with the making of the music, instead of having it filtered to death by various tools, you get the idea. Of course, the ‘music’ most of the younger crowd listen to these days is only made to destroy your ears so you won’t realize you’re listening to crud and corruption instead of music, IMHO.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
I understand what the writer means about Big Music, but in actual fact, iTunes carries far more selections than just the plastic junk spewed out by the system.
For just one example of many, Lomax’s entire World Music collection is available as albums or singles, priceless gems of REAL “world music” (or as we used to call it, ethnic folk music, as opposed to the pop, tin-pan alley “fusion” versions that pass for it now). These include recorded in the field over 60 years ago.
Much of this music is now extinct, along with the cultures and languages they represented, victims of war or natural disasters, or even more often of the export of the pop, plastic, throw-away, junk “culture” that the USA is exporting world-wide with its other exports - such as MacDonald’s.
Apple should be congratulated for offering such rich and rare fare to off-set the banal blandness of the other stuff.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:52 pm
You sound like an OLD FART .
I say the ONLY music good enough to listen is live music - played by professional musicians from the “western world” - so are you going to dispute it? Get real buddy - all music is relative and derivative.
Get over it - you are history!
Am
June 8th, 2004 at 5:54 pm
Apparently Art is not a PC user and does not realize that you can download digital music and play it on more than just your PC….Art….get out of the 70’s man….download music and then burn it to one of several digitla formats to play on your Ampifier and speakers.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:58 pm
Dudes, please…
This debate is stupid. It has nothing to do with the article.
I LIKE AVRIL LAVIGNE AND ONLY LISTEN TO HER MUSIC ON MY HIGH QUALITY BOSE HEADPHONES.
Glad I could rationally and logically contribute.
Captain Anonymous
June 8th, 2004 at 5:59 pm
Yet other countries are only too happy to have U.S. aid and corporations in their countries. We may be exporting it, but theyre importing it. As for Sony, its a marketing ploy to save the ATRAC format which is in the minority when compared to the .mp3 format and a music purchase point that has already been panned by a majority of reviewers. Sony has really made several marketing and bussiness mistakes in 2004 and the year is only half over. Good luck Sony - youre going to need it.
June 8th, 2004 at 6:08 pm
It is interesting that Sony is trying to capture the same success Apple and Pepsi had recently. Upon further investigation of the Sony music site, their music will only be playable on Sony products as well. hmmmmm just like iTunes is only playable on Apple iPods. Well at least you can burn your iTunes songs to CD-Rom that will play in just about anything. Not so with Sony. You can burn your songs to CD-Rom discs as well but they will only be compatible with Sony’s propritary ATRAC CD-Rom players. I never drank much Pepsi products, but I bought more than 40 (as that is how many downloads I got) during their promotion. I have not eaten at McDonalds in more than 5 years and I don’t own any Sony products. Good luck Sony.
June 8th, 2004 at 6:10 pm
It is spelled McDonald’s not MacDonald’s. Dummies.
June 8th, 2004 at 6:45 pm
If anyone can listen blindly to both a 4-inch thick reel-to-reel analog tape and the digitally analagous 192khz sound source and tell me which is the original, I’ll totally suck your dick. Forever and ever.
You’re all a bunch of goddamn idiots.
June 8th, 2004 at 7:23 pm
Chock to death by a purist. that felt good.
I happy to stream from my mac out to my STEREO and choose any one of my THOUSANDS of files within seconds and having any custom mix of any of those song without flipping through ALL those friggin CDs
June 8th, 2004 at 7:26 pm
McDonald’s is desperate to shove it’s crap down your throat any way it can after all of the well-founded bad publicity they have gotten as of late. People are waking up to the fact that just because a company says it’s good for you doesn’t mean it is - they may actually be lying just to get you to buy it. What a concept! And news flash, hey a salad can be sprayed with the same chemicals that are mixed in with their “meat” so don’t think those leafy greens are any better.
You would save more money just buying the music from Sony (why anyone would give scumbags like Sony their money is another topic) than hurting your body with McDonald’s garbage.
This is a good time to boycott both of them, not like anyone will except maybe me and a few others out there. It’s a nice thought though, you know, that mainstream Western culture could grow some balls and take a stab at the big corporations that are imposing their interests on our government(s) and therefore our tax dollars with a simple tactic:
NOT CONSUMING THEIR PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES
A guy can dream, I guess…
June 8th, 2004 at 10:41 pm
SquashRadio.com!!!!
June 9th, 2004 at 2:55 am
>> I’ll totally suck your dick. Forever and ever.
I represent the RIAA and MPAA in litigation….thing is buddy, you already suck my dick and so many others, and it’ll be forever and ever.
You have a tiny window here to reverse the situation, but my employers will never let it happen. Oh yeah, it helps that their bank balance is in the billions, while yours is in the hundreds….good luck
June 9th, 2004 at 7:19 am
McDonalds, Coke, and even Wonderbra can offer free music, for all I care. But, if I have something to say about it, I post my comment as daveslounge. What’s the point of posting as ‘Anonymous Coward’? If you have something to say, stand by it. For all the ‘reader’ knows you could be Bill Gates, Mick Jagger, or Martha Stewart! Obviously ‘daveslounge’ isn’t my real name. I’m Dave. To all the Anonymous Cowards out there, if you wanna participate and add input, get yourself a stage name! Takes two seconds, and you’re done!