| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
14:43 - Someone's been busy
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Just got the "New Music Tuesdays" e-mail from the iTunes Music Store. Popped open the "All Just Added" link, and... whoah! This is the biggest weekly addition of songs they've done since... ever. Easily several hundred albums, and probably thousands of songs. It took me ten minutes to scroll through them all.
Oddly, though, I hardly recognized any of them. There was hardly any pop or rock stuff in it-- some George Thorogood and Pearl Jam, but the vast majority of the listing was made up of bands with names with "Mountain" or "River" or "Boys" or "Brothers" in them. It's like, this week they decided to add the genre entirely populated with the cast of O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
And the albums by "Various Artists" (boy, that guy's prolific) were out in force too. Five whole screenfuls of albums-- each one a compilation or soundtrack, many of which were "inspirational", reggae, polka, Cajun... lots of underground-ish sorts of stuff. I half wonder if maybe this is the week where they've opened the floodgates for all those indie artists they've been furiously signing up.
It's Christmas every Tuesday in Mac-land.
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