News from the Back
Me
: Hello, I’m been browsing in your music shop here… wow, there’s lots of stuff in here, I mean, I’ve never seen so much music in one place
Shopkeeper
: Well, thank you sir, we here at Spotify do pride ourselves on havingone of the most complete, organised music collection in the world. Good, isn’tit?
Me:
Rather good, yes. And I’ve heard a rumour that everything in this finemusic emporium is… you know… free..?
Shopkeeper:
That’s perfectly correct sir, all free, all for you.
Me:
So this entire Bob Dylan back catalogue is…
Shopkeeper:
Yes sir, free. As I said, it’s good, yes?
Me:
Well yes, undoubtedly it’s good… the thing is, I’m having a little bit of trouble finding things…
Shopkeeper
: What do you mean sir?
Me:
I can see all the things I know, and all the CDs that I actually have already…I know where they are…
Shopkeeper:
…that’s because of our wonderfully simply indexing system sir, justtap the name of the artist you want into our search box, and up comes thatmusic.
Me:
Yes, I see that. But what happens if, you know, I don’t know the name?
Shopkeeper:
Pardon me, sir? I don’t quite get where you’re coming from..?
Me:
Well, if I just want to browse… find something new, interesting,undiscovered… I won’t know the name of it.
Shopkeeper
: If you don’t know the name of it sir, why would you want to listento it?
Me:
Because I haven’t heard it before, and think that it might be good.
Shopkeeper
: How many songs do you know, sir?
Me:
Errr, I don’t really know… errr, well, I have 400 or so CDs, so let’s call that5,000 songs, and perhaps I know of lots more songs that I don’t own, let’s sayanother 5,000… maybe I know 10,000 songs.
Shopkeeper:
And that’s limiting, is it sir? Not enough for you? Listened to themall today, have we sir?
Me:
No… of course not, but that’s not the… I mean, I’d like to hear somethingnew…
Shopkeeper
: What would you like to hear sir?
Me:
Well, I don’t know, just… something new?
Shopkeeper
: Is that the artist name, sir, or the title of an album.
Me:
No, it’s neither… look, this is getting me nowhere… you’ve got all thismusic, don’t you?
Shopkeeper:
Yes sir, we here at Spotify do pride ourselves in…
Me:
Yes, you’ve said that already… and all this music you have, it’s free for me,isn’t it? Completely free. I can have anything I want, yes?
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