I heard a snippet on the radio this evening about the Spice Girls, they are, it would seem, releasing a “Best of the Spice Girls” CD (one can only assume that it is a blank CD) exclusively into Victorias Secret stores in the U.S. to drum up interest in a format that is, frankly, dying.
I was struck by thought that the music industry as a whole isnt reacting terribly quickly, or indeed at all, to the changing face of music sales. I mean honestly, who the fuck wants to buy a “best of” CD when you can go and purchase the tracks you ACTUALLY LIKE from say, iTunes, and not pay the other 14 quid for the audio-cruft filler that invariably makes up the rest of the disk.
I know that this affects all album sales but the the “best of” CD is something that seems suddenly utterly antiquated in the face of our new “on demand” buying habits.
It seems that Victorias Secret have stumped up £5,000,000 for the right, no, the privilege, to flog the CD alongside their flimsy undergarments, and I rather think that they have been fleeced.
Perhaps the Spice Witches record company reasoned (correctly) that the sales revenue from a regular CD launch would be less than the revenue generated by forcing them to go on the game, and hence hoodwinked some slow witted marketing oaf into believing their hype…..
It occurred to me the other day that I tend to do the same set of things every time I get a new mobile, and since I do that at least once a year (hey I’m a geek) I thought I would relate. I can’t be the only one who does it, right?
- Spend 10 mins finding where the fuck all the functions are in the menus, and bemoaning the fact that for the majority of mobile phone manufactures, creating a USEABLE and LOGICAL UI is a complete and utter mystery.
- Discover that all the games shipped as standard are wank
- Wonder briefly why everyone hasn’t gotten together to figure out a standard format for storage of addressbook entries. As opposed to appending random characters to the name.
- Spend tedious hour teaching the T9 text entry to spell things like fuck, and shit, and bastard, and cuntbubble. To be fair this isn’t something you usually do in one go, oh no, its something you do every time you send a text for the first 6 months, getting increasingly infuriated with the spacky method of adding entries to the dictionary.
- Spend 10 mins trying to reassign the pointless “connect to the internet” button that is invariably placed right where a the “create new text message” button ought to be, but isnt.
- Seriously consider going back to using your old phone, not because its better but because you are at least familliar with the shitty UI on the old one.
There will be more, I just cant be arsed to type any more, what about you lot?
I have just stumbled upon this page, via Kotaku, stop reading and click the link. Now, I mean it.
Quite possibly the funniest thing on the intertubes.
Also his Halo3 review rather nicely tallies with mine, so nyah!.
