iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, Third Edition

The iTunes Music Store Song

It would be depressing to end this chapter with such a bummer of a warning, so here’s a little song parody that appeared on the Web shortly after the iTunes Music Store had its grand opening. It’s attributed to filk master Scott Taylor.

Figure 7-15. The Purchase History area records all of the songs and albums downloaded and charged to an Apple Account, which can be useful for bracing yourself for the coming credit card bill. The list starts with the most recent ones.

Tip

Filk songs are parodies of well-known tunes, or original compositions, with lyrics about computers, TV, movies, science fiction, fantasy, and other crunchy bites of the pop culture universe tossed in. It’s a goofy and exuberant art form unto itself. (Seehttp://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/Filk.)

iTunes Man

To the tune of “Piano Man,” by Billy Joel.

It’s nine o’clock at the iTunes store,

A phenomenal crowd’s logging on,

There’s an old man on AOL,

Finding music from ages bygone.

He says, “Steve, can you play me a memory?

I’m not really sure how it goes,

But I typed in a track and got album names back!

And I’m not even wearing my clothes!”

Oh la da da diddy da da, la da diddy da da da.

Sell us a song, you’re the iTunes man,

Sell us a song tonight.

Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody,

And you’ve got the pricing just right.

Now Claude at Vivendi’s a friend of mine,

And his business ...