pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

I think I’m getting an iTunes hangover and it has everything to do with banging into the outer edges of their walled garden. It has to stop because even though I ought to be interested in the iTunes/Starbucks love fest I have to say I can’t get excited. So tomorrow I can jump online at Starbucks, as long I lived in either New York or Seattle, which is all fine and dandy as I don’t, plus I don’t use Starbucks for my coffee needs (Stumptown rules, ok…) and I certainly don’t use Starbucks for my musical discovery needs….. I have to say I really like the fact that I can download TV shows and such from iTunes but somehow the music buying has lost its lustre. Amazon’s new download service and EMusic are floating my boat right now - and guess what, DRM free.
Oh, and as for that in-store purchasing experience -
“The mobile-payment technology can create a desensitizing and seductive purchase experience, said James Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communications Studies at Rutgers University. “The more people think about a purchase decision, the more likely uncertainty creeps in,” he said. “One frame of mind is you’re helping create in consumers’ mind a source of pleasure, and enabling them to fulfill that pleasure,” Mr. Katz said of the mobile impulse temptation. Another is that “they’re preying on our materialistic souls.”

Update: I said I like getting the TV shows from iTunes, and I do, but man I couldn’t find Mad Men up there even after much searching. I found the link by going to the Mad Men web site, sheesh!!