I like holiday music. I know, I know but I do. I got it from my dad. He’s a holiday music junkie, not a connoisseur, just a junkie. I have over 16 and a half hours of music! Ranging from classic Bing Crosby to the Eurythmics, and every year I think that I have all the christmas music I could need, and every year I seem to buy a few more. This year was no exception.

Yesterday I was in iTunes and was “rating” the songs so I could create a “Favorites” play list to copy to the iPhone. While doing my rating, I was looking for “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” by John Lennon and I noticed I didn’t have it. Over to iTunes I went and went a searching. Well of course I found about a dozen other songs by other artists and of course I bought them. I won’t say who or what but let’s just say… iTunes strikes again.

I think this is something that the recording companies keep missing out on. If I had to walk in to a store to buy John Lennon’s CD for this one song, I wouldn’t have. If I wanted to do what I did yesterday I couldn’t have. And long story short, by delivering music the way that this end user wanted it, they made a sale that they would have lost in the old paradigm. Instead of just saying f*ck it, I ended up spending as much as I would have on a single CD with only one track that I liked.

I call it a wash.