I want my Spotify!
As if western Europe didn’t have enough to brag about already — people who give a shit about food, art, and culture; coming out ahead on the whole toppling Hitler thing; and as of earlier this week, playing host to the entire Obama clan — heretofore that’s the only part of the world where one can freely enjoy Spotify, the streaming-music site that offers music geeks all of their head-banging without any of that annoying buffering… buffering… buffering…
But a Spotify iPhone app is now on its way for us lunkheaded, good-ol’-U-S-of-A rednecks, too. Yee haw!
How Spotify works: Download its software and you’ve got yourself free, legal, limitless access to pretty much any chord ever recorded in streaming form, with a relatively little amount of advertising to put up with. The sells come between songs, so it’s kind of life build-your-own-FM-station. No gratis downloading, though; that’s an a la carte, pay-as-you-go deal, a la iTunes.
Right now non-Europeans need a VIP. invite-only access code to be Spotify ‘puter users. Because Europeans are such fucking snobs, n’est-ce pas?
@Dan Ms Martelli is using hyperbole, gross stereotyping and sarcasm to comedic effect. I can say with a great degree of certainty say that she neither believes Americans are “lunkheads” or that Europeans are “fucking snobs”. Besides, both Europeans and Americans write for CoS…
Our cultures are the cultures of our colonizers. Bow to them!
What? Europe got crushed by Hitler. America toppled him… remember? And also, you know, Obama is the American PRESIDENT. And your implication that Americans are uncultured compared to Europeans is ignorant.