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Its the end of the era of digital music ownership as we know it.
Today we ask that, in loving (?)
What was your very first iTunes download?
Vulture would like to see the receipts.
Weve shown you ours; now show us yours.
(I recall several CDs were on my birthday list.)
to recent Green Day B-sides to old Nirvana.
These were confusing teen times, people.
Whether or notheknew we were involved is irrelevant.
Fellow retired (but barely) scene kids will relate!
thetheme to the short-lived TV showCover Up)and Becks 2002Sea Changealbum.
Glad to see I wasnt completely averse to new music back then.
(Gold, the greatest-hits album.)
Rahman, M.I.A., O … SayaDate:December 27, 2008
2008 was a simpler time.
Barack Obama was elected president.
Vivienne and Knox Jolie-Pitt were born into a happy home.
The movie went on to win ten Oscars, including one for Best Soundtrack and one for Best Song.
That song, Jai Ho, was not the first song I purchased on iTunes.
In fact, I never purchased Jai Ho, even when it was eventually covered by the Pussycat Dolls.
I bought the Oscar-losing song on iTunes; eventually, Trump was elected; now iTunes itself has self-destructed.
Im traditionally an album person, and was definitely more that way in 2007.
I hate that Spotify doesnt privilege albums and surfaces the most popular songs right away.
I do miss those days of grandiosity and novelistic structure, even ifThe Crane Wifefeels pretty ridiculous in retrospect.
Im pretty sure I got it for free because they were like $2 back then.
At least Rihanna was one of my firsts.
But still, iTunes got me.
Did I turn the night?
Did I use iTunes again?
It was always slowing my computers down (I could only afford cheap PCs!
), and I was still a music thief at heart.
But then I got a Zune later that year and Ilovedthat thing.
I guess I wanted to listen to it more often?
Ah, to be young and in the closet!
Honestly, very reasonable for the feelings I had at that age.
That same day, I then went on to purchase three more songs.
Two of which are much more questionable.
Overdrive by Katy Rose totally makes sense; its the ending-credit song ofMean Girlsand still a bop.
I was good for it!
Honestly, the song choice makes sense.
I loved this song 15 years ago.
I still love it now.
And I have sang the high parts at karaoke so, so many times since freshman year.
Thats because I honestly didnt use the service much in my youth.
No, as confirmed from an old email deep dive, it waspartsof a song.
That song was Radioheads Nude.
And to help, they sold the stems of the track on iTunes.
So, I paid the $4.95 and sat in front of my Garage Band for a few hours.
By hour four I realized I didnt know what I was doing.
There was no second stab at it.
I didnt send it in to win whatever the prize was probably a vinyl copy of the album.
And yet, forsomereason, I didnt win the contest.
I never listened to the stems again.
