Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

January 18, 2006 11:18 AM

The Friday night before last, in a fit of drunken outrage that a particular song I really wanted to listen to wasn't available for legal download, I used Sony BMG Australia's online feedback form to rant against their refusal to license music for sale in the Australian iTunes music store.

Today, Sony made a deal with Apple, and the song is available.

Don't everybody thank me at once.

(Of course, now I am sober I don't feel any need to hear the song.)

12 Comments

You are my hero, Charles. Does this mean that we can get all of Plastic Bertrand's music from iTunes now?

but what's the damn song?

i'm drunk, maybe i'll want to hear it.

Charles, I wouldn't have picked you as an Australian Idol fan...

In truth, it was Ben Folds' "Adelaide". I particularly enjoyed the irony that at the time I wanted to listen to it, it could be purchased by Americans but not Australians.

Because of therefore the result of? Or something like that. Latin always throws me but West Wing brings me home. Gotta watch that episode again.

Try Google instead. It's a pretty common phrase.

I'm partly just kidding around, but two things spring to mind:
1. Your music sucks!
2. Do you always get drunk in front of the computer?

1. Yo momma sucks too, but I don't go around telling people
2. No. I get drunk in bars. Then I come home to be with my computer because she's the only one who truly understands me. Believe me, the next frontier after legalising gay marriage is to legitimise the honest and pure relationship between a man and his iMac.

Pffft. You could have asked me for the song! I'm only one metre away! (and I have all of those Ben Folds EPs)

Anyway, thanks for making SonyBMG finally cave in and put their catalogue on the iTMS. Do you think the extra few cents they would have made by holding out outweigh the revenue from 3 months of iTMS sales? ;)

The question that has to be asked is why did you want to listen to that particular song when you were under the influence? I think that track one on that e.p. is a much better sing along when you are outside a couple of cold ones.

He wanted to listen to that particular song because, after having come home and carved the pet name for his iMac within a love heart on his arm, there wasn't much else to do but visit iTunes for songs which he couldn't buy.

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