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iTunes sells sounds of silence

January 3, 2005 by in Stupid with 5 Comments

Silence may be golden, but now, thanks to iTunes, it can be downloaded for a mere 99 cents.

Among the hundreds of thousands of downloadable songs for sale at Apple Computer’s online music store are at least nine tracks of silence, a fact that has prompted quite a bit of discussion.

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  • derek

    ah yes… the silent tracks. what a waste of battery.

  • Dan

    I am more concerned that they cost 99 cents

  • Dave

    I’ll sell ya a whole cd of silence for only $5

  • Operaman

    Hey! I hope you BOUGHT a legal copy of that silence CD!
    Can’t just go infringing copyrighted material like *silience*.
    I mean, the poor, poor RIAA is starving to death just like those poor Youth In Asia people ;-p

  • http://themusingsofkev.blogspot.com/ Kev

    Two thoughts come to mind here:

    1) Maybe the silence was just a mis-labeled mp3 of John Cage’s composition 4’33”.

    2) I bet it still sounds better than the new Britney Spears single. ;-)

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