Duh
Only recently did I think of setting up a way to buy a subscription to Thing a Week. You can get it as a podcast whether you have a subscription or not, but if you prefer to pay for your music, Paypal would be happy to transfer a dollar a week from you to me for as long as this crazy ride lasts. For those of you kind enough to buy the song every week, this is a nice shortcut. Details are here.
March 26th, 2006 at 9:52 am
This would explain why iTunes is asking me to download everything again.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Hmm, it shouldn’t change anything in iTunes. Anyone else having that problem?
March 26th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Ok, I’m on. I already bought your “virtual albums” and now you’ve got my buck a week.
I just recently “discovered” you (which I think means I can name you, doesn’t it?), but based on the TaW history over the last few months, I am convinced that you will be able to keep this up a while longer before you start sucking.
There’s my vote of confidence.
I’m fascinated by this alternative music commerce paradigm … the Thing a Week thing is nice, but I mean, just the idea of an artist creating and selling immediately instead of waiting a year or so and recording an “album” is an incredible leap forward from the fan’s point of view. It remains to be seen if it is that great of a deal for the artist; since most musicians / bands release an album that has maybe 1 or 2 hit / quality tunes (I know … “hit” and “quality” may be mutually exclusive), it seems like real-time publishing puts a lot of pressure on YOU to produce quality music.
Good luck … keep up the great work! Just when I started to get robot overlords out of my head, now it’s filled with zombies!
March 26th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
For some reason, the past Things re-downloaded this morning - all the way back to Chiron Beta Prime. Anyway, thanks for setting up the $1/week subscription.
March 27th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Sorry about the re-download everyone, I’m not sure what’s happening there. I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 this weekend, so maybe something changed in the feed. I also fixed a problem last week where some mp3s were marked as genre=podcast in iTunes and were getting deleted after being listened to. Who knows with these kooky computers!? My iTunes hasn’t re-downloaded anything though. Maybe it just knows who I am and it fears my harsh reprisal.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:33 am
Regarding the re-download thing — I get this from other feeds, so I’m not sure it’s anything you’re doing wrong (and possibly something you can’t do anything about at all).