Downloading music at the coffee bar

by billso on Wednesday, 7 July 2004

Tech: Fast Com­pany | Think­ing Out­side The Cup: “So this girl walks into a bar. She holds a tall iced cof­fee in one hand, and her blond hair is piled high in a pony­tail, neon bikini strings peek­ing out from her tank top. At this bar, how­ever, head­phones hang above the stools, and com­puter screens are embed­ded in the coun­ter­top. The girl looks at the ‘bar­tender’ quizzi­cally. ‘So you can burn music here and it’s, like, legal and every­thing?’ she asks. The bar­tender smiles and nods. ‘Omigod, so you have, like, every song, ever?’ Well, not every song, but quite a few: approach­ing 150,000 — about 20,000 albums’ worth. The girl set­tles onto a stool and grabs a head­set, tak­ing a long drag on the straw in her drink as she starts tap­ping away on a screen. ‘That’s awwwesome.’”

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