September 14, 2003

• So while I was out eating a bite, I was thinking about a conversation I had today.
  
  I was talking to a friend about the state of the music industry, from the perspective of online music sharing. I predicted that more music would be made available for cheap or free on the internet, and that record labels would end up looking like Apple's iTunes music sales section. iTunes lets you buy songs for $.99 a piece.
  
  Well, as I was munching on my tater tots, I was thinking about how $.99 is pretty much the minimum retail amount you can charge for anything. It's the minimum currency. And I was also thinking about how the song is the minimum cultural artifact one can trade online. It's the minimum currency.
  
  So now that a song is equivalent to $.99, you can buy things for a song. Or two or three songs.
  
  Which reminds me of a song by The Tubes, called 'For A Song.'

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