Tiered iTunes Prices? Really?

Wow. When I logged onto iTunes today, I went to check out the top one hundred songs for alternative, and I noticed that one of the songs, Santeria by Sublime (great band by the way), was $1.29. I clicked back into the music section, thinking it must be some music video, but my eyes didn't fool me. iTunes has started using tiered prices. Found out more on Gizmodo, they had a whole article on it. I love Apple, and seriously love iTunes, about a quarter of my library has been bought thanks to gift cards that have allowed me to get albums off iTunes, but man this sucks. The tiered pricing means that now every time a song gets popular, we, the consumers, are going to end up paying more for it. I mean, sure, for some, what does thirty cents do? But seriously, that thirty cents makes a difference, and I'd much rather keep it in my wallet than on a song.

Granted, I don't often listen to songs that are in the top one hundred all that often, but it's not all that nice to know that those people who are listening to bad music (well, at least in my opinion) now have to pay more for it. So for now, I am boycotting iTunes. I don't really have a choice. As for the Gizmodo article, I agree, I looked just now for about ten minutes, I could only find the songs that Apple has specifically put out at $0.69, but really, if you liked any of these songs, I'm sure you'd already have them.

So for now, I'm boycotting iTunes. This is a little stupid, while most songs are staying at $0.99, I shouldn't have to pay $1.29 for "I'm On A Boat". Bye iTunes, hello Amazon Unbox!

~Andrew