14 posts tagged “amazon”
I already use Emusic, Amazon MP3, and iTunes Plus. While I need another music store like I need a second face, I found one in 7digital.
If you were still in suspense, I did get the TV I bought:
- new Xbox 360 I bought when I decided to buy a tv (HDMI)
- Wii I already had (proprietary ↔ component)
- free upsampling DVD player that got me to buy the thing (HDMI)
- MacBook Pro (DVI ↔ HDMI)
- white iMac (mini-DVI ↔ DVI ↔ HDMI)
What did I find waiting for me when I got home?
I guess that's that:
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has shown an interest in televisions and video, you might like to know that as Samsung prepares to release new models, Amazon.com has lowered prices on all of our current models while supplies last.
- Release a great melodic widely-styled hip-hop album that everyone absolutely loves.
- Release a new album that's more consistent but still totally awesome.
- Get mentioned on one of my favorite "stuff" blogs.
- Don't have your album on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
Hard method
- Release a totally awesome rock album several years ago.
- Be mentioned often enough over the course of a couple years by people I consider hip that I'm naturally wary of you.
- Have one of my favorite "stuff" blogs say your album is "one of the top 5 albums to come out since Nirvana's Nevermind," which I don't actually read because of (2).
- Have one of your songs be included in a musical sequence in a movie I really liked, which I remember now because it's out on DVD soon.
- Have a song in the hottest hit music video game around, which I start playing.
- Be on the mp3 CD my friend's wife left in the car when he drove me someplace.
- Don't make your album available on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Be available on a coworker's iTunes share.
- When I'm almost done listening to your album for the twelfth time in two days, have my coworker leave for the day.
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
- Release an epic hip-hop album I like enough to even get the remix album (albeit on Emusic).
- Release a new album in which you reportedly take "a giant leap forward in song craft, incorporating elements such as pop, reggaeton, and R&B."
- Don't make it available on Emusic.
- Don't make it available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
- When I look to write this post, even after Amazon started claiming to be selling the CD, have delayed the release of the album by a month.
I recall in my Econ 101 class some interesting material explaining the nature of supplementary versus complementary goods. Primarily the course material was about how as the price of a good goes down, causing more purchases at the new higher level of demand, the demand for complementary goods—things that are used with the first thing—goes up, while demand for supplementary goods—things that are used instead of the first thing—goes down. As a modern internet business, I would expect you might be familiar with the idea, as more businesses plan around giving away goods to make money selling their complements.
Please review.
Anyone else playing Amazon Customers Vote this year?
I voted for the 360. I guess that was too strategic (plus I already have a Wii), so 1,000 random Amazon customers who voted for the Wii and check back tomorrow will get one for $80. Instead I might (might!) get $60 off the 360. Which I don't think would get me to buy it.
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has purchased adventure video games at Amazon.com, you may be interested in playing "Ben 10." ...
Dear Amazon.com,
I regret to inform you that this statement is not accurate. It would be contrary to federal statutes for me to care any less about Ben 10: Protector of Earth for Wii, PS 2, PSP, and DS, if only because it's a licensed game, a genre unto itself set early on its path by the infamous E.T. for 2600.
P.S. Where's my Mario Galaxy??
Something tells me Amazon just doesn't think I'm worthy enough to have a silver Razr.
(Not that I'm actually shopping for a new phone anyway.)
