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I bought this album for one reason: To win the iTunes Music Store one-millionth download contest. The person who downloaded the one-millionth song was going to win a whole mess of sweet Apple stuff and I thought it was going to be mine, because of my elaborate plan. <\/p>\n
First, I created an Excel spreadsheet that calculates the number of songs sold per minute and how many seconds were left until the one-millionth song was downloaded. I used the download totals from the Apple website, which was updated every five minutes. <\/p>\n
Then I had to find an album that contained a whole lot of songs. At first I thought I had to go with a greatest hits album. The Barenaked Ladies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 greatest hits had nineteen songs. Def Leppard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest hits only had 15 songs. Okay, maybe this greatest hits route isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the best. I really needed something with more songs. <\/p>\n
I decided to search the iTunes Music Store classical catalog and found what I was looking for, although it was going to be expensive. I ended up with the $49.95 Mozart: Symphonies set (now $79.92), which contained 117 songs. Perfect! I figured if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win, the $50 I spent wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be so bad because I actually like Mozart. But I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to lose because I had my super-dooper elaborate plan.<\/p>\n
So I had my Excel spreadsheet and my 117 songs Mozart collection, then all I had to do was sit in front of my computer and wait. The number of downloads slowly increased, getting closer and closer to the magic number. When it got about a few thousand downloads away, I purchased my album, but I think a few thousand people across the nation were trying to buy something as well because my purchase wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going through. It stalled for a few minutes. While stalling, I checked to Apple website to see if they had a winner and they did.<\/p>\n
Dammit!<\/p>\n
Since they found a winner I wanted to cancel my still stalled purchase, but right when I was going to hit the cancel button, my album began downloading.<\/p>\n
So here I am with an enormous amount of classical music, all 9 hours, 56 minutes, and 22 seconds of Mozart. Only recently I finished listening to the whole thing and I realize that I have all the classical music I need for the rest of my life. <\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, soothing stuff. I enjoy listening to it when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reading, writing, or falling sleep. No, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listen to it while writing this review, because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be reminded of my crappy super-dooper elaborate plan.<\/p>\n
I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe I got beaten by some lucky guy who bought only ONE song.<\/p>\n
Dammit! I think next time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to need a better Excel spreadsheet. <\/p>\n
Item:<\/b> Mozart: Symphonies
\nPurchase Price:<\/b> $49.95 (now $79.92)
\nRating:<\/b> 8 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Soothing music. Great to listen to when reading, writing, or falling asleep. A whole lot of music at a wonderful price.
\nCons:<\/b> Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even come close to winning the iTunes contest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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