{"id":141,"date":"2005-02-09T00:32:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T10:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T02:47:12","slug":"itunes-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/09\/itunes-gift-card\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Gift Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;padding-left:10px;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/itunesgiftcard.jpg\" alt=\"iTunes Gift Card\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Damn you, VH1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s I Love the 80s and I Love the 90s for sticking in my head those songs that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to forget.  But now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck in my head and I have the urge to buy them.<\/p>\n<p><i>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Barbie Girl\/In the Barbie world\/Life in plastic\/It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fantastic\/You can brush my hair\/Undress me everywhere\/Imagination\/Life is your creation\/(Come on, Barbie, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go party!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See what you started, VH1!<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itunes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a> Gift Card I got as a gift for Christmas.  With it I can download those songs from iTunes without wasting my own money.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d use my own money to buy some Green Day, Beastie Boys, Mozart, or Def Leppard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greatest Hits, but you wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t catch me using my own money to buy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Informer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by the white Jamaican-wannabe rapper, Snow.<\/p>\n<p><i>Informer (something, something, something)\/A licky boom boom down\/(something, something, something)\/A licky boom boom down<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Maybe if I download them and listen to them enough, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get really sick of them, like I did with the U2 song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/index.php?p=69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vertigo<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Oh crap, actually, I remember that plan didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work out the way I thought it would.  It turns out that I really do like that song, I even bought the live version on iTunes.  Anyway, that song is totally worth spending 99 cents, unlike Vanilla Ice\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ice Ice Baby.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><i>All right stop, collaborate, and listen\/Ice is back with my brand new invention\/Something grabs a hold of me tightly\/Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly\/Will it ever stop?  Yo, I don&#8217;t know\/Turn off the lights and I&#8217;ll glow\/To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal\/Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle\/Dance, go rush to the speaker that booms\/I&#8217;m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom\/Deadly, when I play a dope melody\/Anything less than the best is a felony\/Love it or leave it, you better gain way\/You better hit bull&#8217;s eye, the kid don&#8217;t play\/If there was a problem, yo, I&#8217;ll solve it\/Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>OH MY GOD!  I apparently know the whole DAMN SONG!!!<\/p>\n<p>Now I think one of the problems of downloading these one-hit wonders with an iTunes Gift Card is the chance you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get caught with them on your computer or iPod.  I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to imagine the embarrassment I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d feel if someone found me listening to Billy Ray Cyrus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Achy Breaky Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on my iPod, while poorly attempting to do some kind of line dancing.<\/p>\n<p><i>But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart\/I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d understand\/And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart\/He might blow up and kill this man<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to imagine the embarrassment of getting caught posing topless in front of the mirror, flexing what little muscles I have, and rubbing my nipples, while listening to Right Said Fred\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Too Sexy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><i>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too sexy for my shirt\/Too sexy for my shirt\/So sexy it hurts\/And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too sexy for Milan\/Too sexy for Milan, New York, and Japan\/And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too sexy for your party\/Too sexy for your party\/No way I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disco dancing<\/i><\/p>\n<p>DAMMIT!!!  Why do I remember all these lyrics!?!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, now that I think about it, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth using the iTunes Gift Card to download these songs, maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just download them the old-fashioned way&#8230;when the RIAA isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t looking.<\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b>  iTunes Gift Card<br \/>\n<b>Purchase Price:<\/b>  FREE (Given as gift)<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b>  8 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  Makes a great gift.  Allows you to buy one-hit wonders you wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dare spend your own money on.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Useless if you don&#8217;t have iTunes.  Possibility of getting caught rubbing nipples topless in front of mirror.  My ability to recite all the lyrics from Vanilla Ice\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ice Ice Baby.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn you, VH1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s I Love the 80s and I Love the 90s for sticking in my head those songs that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to forget. But now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck in my head and I have the urge to buy them. 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