Music Safe Haven???
I admit it - I don't do the MP3 thing very well... I've lost more songs thru careless archiving, CDs that magically turned into coasters, and bad labeling... I believe the technical term for my losses would go under the label "carelessness".
I was amused to hear on the radio today, about a company that will allow you to store all of your MP3s on their server, so that if you drop or drown your iPod, or mistakenly reformat your hard drive, you won't lose all of those 99-cent songs you actually pirated thru Morpheus or LimeWire for free.
The service costs 40-bucks a year!!! Now, I was amused because, just this weekend I was putting the finishing-touches on our basement (my playroom/theatre), which got flooded in early February.
Shit Happens... Enaways...
In a fit of nostalgia, I decided to listen to my old
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards album... Purchased in 1975 for $12.99 - It made it thru the latest flood (and all previous moves and tragedies) just fine, thank you, and it sounded just GREAT... we're talking pristine vinyl here - accept no imitations!!!
OK, so I got to figuring... 1975 to 2006 is 31 years (wow, am I an old fart!), Times 40 bucks (a year) ... to use the music locker safe storage method (if there were such a thing in 1975), that album would have cost me $1,240.00 in safe storage alone!!
Hey, now that's what I call progress!!! (I know, I know... I'm being ridiculus, I have hundreds of LP's... but can't a guy have fun?)
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