I’m a little curious: do any of you have a problem with impulse buying? For me, it’s one of my many personality flaws. When I get a notion that I want to own a book, CD, videogame, or anything else for that matter, I feel compelled to go on Amazon or to a physical store […]
My love affair with the iTunes Store continues. As I mentioned last summer, iTunes contains a very nice selection of major Japanese music from artists like Utada Hikaru and Hamasaki Ayumi. But sometime in the last several months the store has expanded its selection of this music to include the likes of Morning Musume, Kumi […]
It’s becoming much easier for Otaku and Japan Freaks (like myself) to get their fix (and it’s all thanks to digital distribution). In addition to the ability to buy Anime episodes from the iTunes Store (including the recently added Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note), Apple has recently started adding select Japanese artists to their store […]
Techno group Daft Punk seems to have had a resurgence in the last 6 months or so, thanks to the Kanye West song “Stronger” and the popularity of YouTube videos such as the Daft Punk Girls and Daft Hands. But I’ve known about the band since about 2002, when songs from their album Discovery – […]
I realized it has been over a year since my last post on this subject, so I thought that I would share just how large my iTunes library has grown over the last year. On March 27, 2007, I had exactly 1700 songs loaded in iTunes. What is that number today, one year and four […]
Two years ago, during my Senior year of high school, I saved up and bought a 4GB green iPod Mini. Over the last couple years it’s become obvious that the meager 4GB simply is not enough to carry my entire music library (which right now totals exactly 1700 songs) plus my assortment of Podcasts. Aside […]
