You fools! You mad fools!
So, Apple has released the new video iPod, and they’ve added a Music Video store to iTunes. This is cool. I’d like to be able to buy videos to download to my iPod. (once I get an iPod that does video, but, meh, I speak in possibility here)
They’ve made one mistake though: You can no longer watch music videos in iTunes for free. Oh. My. God. The last 5 albums I bought I bought because I flipped through the videos and thought “Hey, I like them.” This is why RIAA loved the 80’s, when MTV still showed videos. Sure, it didn’t make any money for MTV, because people’d only tune in for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, then run out and purchase things that MTV didn’t, itself, sell. So now they have hour-long “ZOMG I R SO DRUNK!” shows that “the damned kids these days” watch. This is advantageous to MTV because people are likely to sit through the commercials now.
The problem with iTunes is that free videos were great ads for the music product. 30-second snips of a video aren’t great ads for music, or videos, or… well… anything. Not even porn.
If Steve Jobs weren’t a goatfucker, he’d realize that the real cow would have been to let you watch videos in iTunes, but pay to download them. This thing I would do for the goatfucker. As it is, I don’t know where I’ll go for my good musical suggestions. Good god, I might have to try the radio