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So I recently joined the ranks of the MP3 player owners. I wanted something with which I could listen to music on the go, and if I bought a Walkman I'd be branded an unhip square and I couldn't have that. (Seriously, I wanna start working out again, and I always need music to work out to, and portable CD players ALWAYS skip when you're walking with them, so an MP3 it must be.)

So I buy a model on sale at Meijer. Really small, works really well, save for I can't for the life of me figure out how the heck to get tracks to play in a certain order. (The player just seems to throw them on there completely at random, no matter what playlist-making-thingy I use...any ideas?) Anyway, packaged with it was an offer to join a music download service, trial membership first month free, no obligation, 100 free downloads. Hmm, why not?

So, I sign up, fill out my info, tool around a bit and download whatever looks good...which on this site wasn't much. (A lotta tribute bands and so forth. The kinda stuff that you'd find one copy of at Finders for under 10 bucks. The best stuff I found was in the comedy and spoken word section...to thoroughly humiliate myself, the complete record of my downloads will be posted below.) So I decided I was not gonna re-up with the site, and promply cancelled my account post-downloads.

This occured with surprisingly little trouble, save for the usual "are you sure you wanna do this?" pleading. The funny part came in the form of a survey where you'd explain why you were not continuing with their service. There were a buncha "click here if this applies to you" boxes with a whole host of reasons for leaving - not satisfied with it, using another service, didn't like the selection, etc. Then, at the bottom, came this box: "I'm going to download music free from the internet."

You know, you enter your name and personal info when you sign up for this. You basically admit that you're violating Weird Al's plea, and THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE. I wonder how dense an individual must be to actually click that box?

(Jeff downloaded from Unnamed Music Buying Service:
2 Lewis Black albums
A Bobcat Goldthwait album
A "Best of Al Franken" album
The "Quantum Leap" soundtrack
An album-length interview with Johnny Carson
And two songs by Harry Chapin.

You may mock Jeff's taste in MP3s...starting now.)