Bitch, I'll cut you.

Record companies want more money. A fact that hasn't changed since the dawn of time. Apple releases a cool digital music download model that works and it's proven to be successful. It sells Apple a lot of iPods, and it somehow got me to purchase tracks online. Something I said I would never do. Some record companies want to raise the price of a track and charge you more for newer music because "it's better." HAHAHA ok, whatever. Mr Jobs tells the record companies that he will not raise the price, and that by raising the price, it will promote piracy. Record companies don't like it when someone tells them no, so they look into other options like taking a percentage of iPod sales of just cutting their library away from Apple. Then they start the mudslinging! Steven Jobs called the labels greedy. Michael Nash, Warner's digital strategy chief, had this to say about Apple.

"The industry got together and said 'We don't want another MTV'. Well, now we've got another MTV, in Apple. And we have to deal with it."

Oh, when did the iTunes Music Store stop selling music and start selling us reality TV shows starring the annoying sister of someone who wasn't that big in the music industry who also has their own reality show on the same channel? There is probably more meaning to his comment, but I mean, come on. Really? Addition on 01 Oct 2005 I would also like to add that iTunes has sold over 500million tracks and they're estimated to hit the 1 billion mark sometime in April 2006. It's not like the iTunes music store isn't doing well.