{"id":3014,"date":"2004-12-28T00:16:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T08:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/wordpress\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2004-12-28T00:16:34","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T08:16:34","slug":"its-amazing-how-far-139-rubles-will-go-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2004\/12\/28\/its-amazing-how-far-139-rubles-will-go-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s amazing how far 139 rubles will go these days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am totally addicted to allofmp3.com.  It&#8217;s a Russian website that sells MP3s for dirt cheap compared to iTunes. Is it legal? Who knows. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/cgi-bin\/include.pl\/blogs\/shenews\/archives\/week136.htm\">This website<\/a> claims that technically, I am buying the song in Russia (where the server is located) and then I am importing (downloading) it into America. How damn international.<\/p>\n<p>For $5 (139 rubles) I was able to purchase:<br \/>\nthe new U2 album (11 songs)<br \/>\nthe best of the Cranberries (20 songs)<br \/>\nsome Suzanne Vega (3 songs)<br \/>\nthe &#8220;Pretty in Pink&#8221; soundtrack (10 songs)<br \/>\nFrente! (2 songs)<br \/>\nCrowded House (1 song)<br \/>\nCowboy Junkies (12 songs)<\/p>\n<p>That would have cost almost $60 on iTunes. And, I even could have gotten more if I had gotten a lesser quality of sound file. You can decide what quality and I went for practically CD quality. Much better than iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>I need to research more and find out if I am screwing artists or just the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I realize I am reliving high school with these musical choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am totally addicted to allofmp3.com. It&#8217;s a Russian website that sells MP3s for dirt cheap compared to iTunes. Is it legal? Who knows. This website claims that technically, I am buying the song in Russia (where the server &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2004\/12\/28\/its-amazing-how-far-139-rubles-will-go-these-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}