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  • Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple (Apple will sell you silent tracks)

    02/09/2004 10:18:24 AM PST · by weegee · 25 replies · 285+ views
    New York Times ^ | Published: February 9, 2004 | DAVID F. GALLAGHER
    The top-of-the-line iPod music player from Apple Computer can hold four solid weeks of music. But what if you just want a little peace and quiet? As it turns out, Apple sells that too - sounds of silence for 99 cents. Steve Halberstadt of Raleigh, N.C., made such a purchase last week after discovering that Apple's iTunes store, the Web's leading downloadable music outlet, had added "The Whitey Album," a 1995 release by Ciccone Youth, a jokey side project of the rock band Sonic Youth. The album's second track album, "Silence," consists of 63 seconds of exactly that. (The band...