I'm on a mission. And that mission is to find great soft jazz music using iTunes. Let's face it, Limewire is getting a bit old and full of sometimes junk music files. I don't feel like having to hunt down good jazz music so I decided to do it the easier way: legally. Yes, you read correctly: legally. Amazing, ain't it?
Initially, I received one of those "get a free iTunes song" cards from Starbucks but you hadda sign up for an account. So I opened one and thought "hmm since I have an account now, I might as well download something." Jazz, that's the ticket!
Years ago, I was a bit nervous about buying music from iTunes, mostly it was because I had to put in a credit card number and I didn't have that or a PayPal account then. That turned out to be a completely baseless fear (I buy so much stuff online nowadays and so far nothing bad has happened). Plus, I wanted a place where I could actually look at the album covers and sample the music before I actually downloaded stuff (as opposed to Limewire). And so far I'm liking it. I've gotten started on some terrific artists like John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk so far.
Jazz is literally the backing soundtrack to my childhood. The radio was on constantly to some station where I don't think they ever had any sort of commercials or talking at all for that matter. So, as an aside, it's a little jarring to me when I listen to the jazz radio station on Yahoo! Music and somebody suddenly starts talking. It makes me relaxed in the evening and I think of my crazy fun childhood.
I do have a great list of other artists ready to go thanks to my Dad and the great folks in irc.dslextreme.com #techguy to work from so I am all set to get downloading.
Now, where did I put that salsa dancing card ...... ?
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