I bought the new Foo Fighters CD, In Your Honor which I should have bought from the iTunes Music Store, but nooooooooooooooo… I decided to take advantage of a Best Buy promotion on the label of the packaging that said:
Best Buy Exclusive
Foo Fighters Download
“The Sign”
FREE
with purchase
(details inside)
…so I bring the CD home, open up the packaging, and guess what? The free song is only available on NAPSTER! WHAT THE F*CK!?!?!??!
Of course, Napster doesn’t work with the iPod, and it doesn’t use MP3s, so now instead of buying the songs through iTunes (and getting the videos that come with it on that service), I’ve got the CDs from a “brick ‘n mortar” Best Buy but feel cheated of the free track that seduced me.
Oh well… this is just whining… and the CD is good, but this is utter bullshit. Just goes to show that there’s no such thing as free (as in beer) music when dealing with unscrupulous bastards like Best Buy and Napster.