Apple is everywhere in the news this week, with its MobileMe problems, its
They're not only blocking access to the iTunes store, but to show they're not playing favorites, they have also blocked Amazon's album download and CD-purchase pages.
iTunes is promoting Songs for Tibet pretty heavily. The album is even advertised as the iTunes store prepares to load here in the States.
Jeff Giles at Bullz-eye.com writes:Among the album's worst offenders are Sting, who contributes a useless remix of the already-crappy "Send Your Love"; Moby, whose new version of "We Are All Made of Stars" is the very definition of inessential; and Underworld, whose "To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies)" is ultimately far less interesting than its title. The Alanis track, titled "Versions of Violence," sounds impressively polished for something that was recorded in a dressing room, but unfortunately, it finds Morissette in full-on screeching hippie mode - as a song, it's pretty bad, but it does make you wonder how quickly Chinese Communist Party officials would cave into Tibet's demands if they were locked in a room with the singer while she performed it.
Maybe a better strategy for the Chinese government to dissuade people from getting the album would have been to post reviews like this.
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