[kj] Pre-ordering on iTunes...whatsapoint?

[Neil Perry]

Yep, lots of people still own the old bulging behemoth TVs... but you can't
buy one anymore,
if my last visit to an electrical store is anything to go on.

On 26 March 2012 15:03, wessidetempest . <wessidetempest at hotmail.com> wrote:


>  Well...believe it or not I do not own a "flat screen" tv.  All of mine

> are still tube and thus have the protruding ...roundness.  Now I can't say

> if you can even buy a cheap, NEW, tube tv anymore (little thing).

>

> I still find myself calling new releases by any bands "records".  And

> records usually refers to a "lp".

>

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> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:19:17 +0200

> From: 65snoopy at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] Pre-ordering on iTunes...whatsapoint?

>

>

> Heh, I hear you. Was wondering about that recently.

> On the theme of strange hold-overs from the old world, the description in

> the media of televisions as 'flat-screen' gets on my nerves.

> All TVs are flat screen. They are just... TVs. During the UK riots last

> year there were

> constant reports of looters going after 'flat screen' TVs, like they were

> exotic luxury items

> usually out of reach of the normal person. There is no other type of TV!

>

>

> On 26 March 2012 13:34, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

>

> Was just thinking about this this morning. What's the point of

> "pre-ordering" the new album -- or anything, for that matter -- on iTunes?

> Time was you pre-ordered something so you could get your hands on it first,

> or at the very least, have a physical copy reserved (i.e. set one aside

> with my name on it). That made sense. There'd be a finite supply of new

> copies, etc. etc.

>

> With iTunes, though, the album will become available at the appointed

> time, and that will be that. It's not like iTunes is going to suddenly *run

> out* of it.

>

> It's a strange hold-over from the old world.

>

> Just a thought.

>

> As you were.

>

> Alex in NYC

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