Sunday, February 01, 2004

So, apparently Apple has sold out to the bastards at Pepsi-Cola. The good news is that they have teamed up to give away "100 million free songs." One out of three people with specially-marked caps will get a 10-digit code that they can use to redeem one song out of the iTunes Music Store's database of, um, 100 million songs. Sounds good: all you have to do is buy three 20-oz. bottles of Pepsi (so that one of them will be a winner according to their statistics), get the code, download iTunes (if you have a PC, Macs already have it built-in; and it's free), get a free Music Store account, type in the code, and choose one song out of 100 million. So, if you want to make a CD of free songs (now that's 20 songs, as CDs go), all you have to do is buy 60 bottles of Pepsi (1 in 3 wins one song, yeah that adds up right), which should cost about $120. With that kind of money, you might as well just go out and buy about 10 or 12 CDs. It's kind of a fool's bargain, but hey, who cares. It's free!

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