Brain Freeze

Yeah it sounds odd doesn’t it? It’s true though.

I’ve been a subscriber for quite awhile at the $9.99 a month level. At that level I’ve been receiving 30 downloads a month which, if you do the math quickly, about $0.33 a track.

I just received a note that the cost is going up $2 a month for the basic package of 30 tracks a month. However that’s for new subscribers. For “old-timers” emusic.com is giving an extra 10 downloads a month so even though the monthly cost is going up the actual per-track price is $0.30 so I end up paying less.

They’re also giving out a one-time booster of 10 tracks next month which is quite nice.

I really wish more companies operated this way. Obviously it doesn’t cost emusic much to give their existing customers 10 extra tracks a month. Why aren’t any of the “utility” companies (cell phone, tv, etc.) doing this stuff when they can easily afford it? We all have heard the stories that it costs more to get a new customer than to retain one. Why are the utilities so damn awful then?

Songs because the video is multiple songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim but the song I want to bring attention to is the “Girl From Ipanema”.  This is a clip from Sinatra’s 1967 television special A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim when the Bossa nova craze in the United States was going full-tilt.

Sublime is too simple of a word to describe this music.   Sinatra’s crooning combined with Jobim’s guitar work and Portugese vocals on “Girl from Ipanema”  just ooze style and class. The tuxedos certainly add to the atmosphere. Just amazing stuff.

I have to say though that it’s still shocking to see Sintra dragging on a cigarette right on stage

“Girl from Ipanema” kicks in at about 4:40 (total length of about 6:30).