Which, in the end, is what will save or sink the iTunes store. We live in a consumer state. Anybody who says otherwise is lying. I intend to live rural for five years or so at least once before I die (why else would I be buying so many CDs now? I already have a space allocated for them against the wall of the third room of the sub-basement of my still-in-the-planning-stages underground Idaho bunker), but for the time being, my life, like yours, is a series of transactions. Satisfying transactions shape my outlook on the world I live in. The iTunes store has a method of providing satisfying transactions to whomever wants them. Whether they can move fast enough to live up to that capability remains to be seen. For me, however, the question is asked and answered already. I dropped eight bucks in ten minutes yesterday morning and got more immediate satisfaction from it than I have from spending fifteen bucks apiece on the sixty or so CDs I’ve bought so far this year. I can’t explain what it feels like; I just wanna testify. Who knows but that this may usher in something new and exciting. Who knows, indeed?
