Judging from the "Purchased Music" playlist in my iTunes, I would guess I'm about $100 in. That's not much at all, but it's completely found money on Apple's part, because I doubt I would have bought any of that music otherwise.
121 songs. 7.4 hours. Only six full albums; the remainder all in singles. And about a dozen of those were free grabs during last year's Pepsi promotion. Most of the playlist is stuff Rhon wanted, but it also includes some They Might Be Giants rarities, some newish Weird Al... and then there was that crazy week when they first added the Disney catalog.
Being mostly isolated from current music, my impulse purchases have been sparked by video games. So listen up, marketers, getting your band's songs in DDR did pay off. Here's the songs I bought on iTunes and the games from which I know them. As far as I'm concerned, these songs don't even exist separate from the game.
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) by Garbage, from Amplitude (PS2)
Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry, from Karaoke Revolution (PS2)
Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer, from Karaoke Revolution (PS2)
Love at First Sight by Kylie Minogue, from DDRMAX2 (PS2)
All the Small Things by Blink 182, from Donkey Konga (GC)
This Fire by Franz Ferdinand, from Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2)
Then there's the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack set, which is only partially available on iTunes. So I picked up mine on discount somewhere. I'm hoping to do the same for San Andreas even though I think the SA radio stations are worse than Vice City. Better be much cheaper. Or I could just buy L7's Pretend We're Dead on iTunes tonight and be done with it.
One of my favorite game-rock tracks isn't on iTunes, largely because I think the group is fictional... or at least some kind of techno house band related to the game's developers: Cool Baby by DJ HMX with Plural, from Amplitude (PS2). You can get the song at freq.com and I did.
And you can forget about finding j-pop on iTunes, so get your Tsukiko Amano (Chou from Fatal Frame 2) and Hikaru Utada (Simple and Clean from Kingdom Hearts) elsewhere.
Funny story about Burnout 3. I really like the one song with the girls singing "come on, come on," but I never really paid attention to the band's name. So I go looking online for a track listing, and find out that no less than three songs in Burnout 3 have a title of some variant of "come on." The Von Bondies' "C'mon, C'mon"; The D4's "Come on!"; and "C'mon" by Go Betty Go. iTunes has the two former come-on-songs, but not the Go Betty Go one... and of course that's the one I want. Come on, Betty, sign up with iTunes soon.
