Inadvertently, this has turned into Music Week. Yes, I wrote my quota (600 words) for the day and I’m wondering who all has latched on to lala.com? I read a post about it on some other (far inferior) blog and I must say that I like the concept and execution. It won’t displace iTunes, but the “cloud of music” idea is appealing. If you are always around some web-connected device, why should you fill up terabytes of hard drive space by downloading digital music? You can do that too with lala (and cheaper than iTunes), but you have the option either to play songs free online and/or add songs to your lala collection for 10 cents apiece and/or buy for download an mp3 for 89 cents or buy the “web album” at a greater savings than each track alone. I need to test further the extent of lala’s cloud of music, but I give them credit for having The Feelies’ awesome album “The Good Earth” THAT iTUNES DOES NOT HAVE! In fact, I’m listening to it right now. Quality is very good too. I think the triumvirate of iTunes, Pandora, and lala now provides all the form and content you could possibly want. [holy crap! I just read that The Feelies have reunited and are on tour now, and that The Good Earth has been re-released! Where have I been?]
Here’s a cut from The Good Earth courtesy of lala:
