Hitch-Hiker's guide to iTunes

April 24, 2005 3:03 PM

iTunes Music Store users can listen to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to, Blogging, Deadlines, How to be cool, and Technology. And various other cash-in tracks.
posted by Mwongozi (16 comments total)

How weird that they think people would pay for that.
posted by smackfu at 3:12 PM on April 24, 2005

Above links apparently only work in the US. Other iTunes Music Store don't carry these titles.
posted by kika at 3:19 PM on April 24, 2005

Well, I'm in the UK, and you can be sure that they work here, since I posted them.
posted by Mwongozi at 3:21 PM on April 24, 2005

smackfu.... important people obviously would.
posted by banished at 3:25 PM on April 24, 2005

Not in Canada anyway. At least not without signing out, and then choosing the US (or the UK) music store to hear a preview.

Is that voice Stephen Fry? Too lazy to look it up...
posted by kika at 3:25 PM on April 24, 2005

Worked here in Canada.
posted by Robot Johnny at 3:29 PM on April 24, 2005

Yes it's Stephen Fry. He voices the guide in the new movie.
posted by Mwongozi at 3:40 PM on April 24, 2005

I have a Target card. Can you please post something only useful to registered Target customers?
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:54 PM on April 24, 2005

Boy, I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere, but Reasons to be Miserable (on the Marvin Mixes sure sounds an awful lot like the late Ian Dury's classic "Reasons to be Cheerful (part III)"?
posted by esinclai at 4:12 PM on April 24, 2005

My main computer is down and I'm using an old machine that has an even older version of windows that iTunes does not support. Is there any other way to listen to these?
posted by Staggering Jack at 6:30 PM on April 24, 2005

... to join the 'blogosphere' there are a couple of things you need to do. Firstly, you wil need to increase the size of your ego. Without a swollen ego, you simply cannot achieve the levels of solipsism required by a modern blog.
Heh.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:47 PM on April 24, 2005

I'd actually pay the five bucks for these, if I wasn't so sure I could just borrow them from my friend Fipi.
posted by kevspace at 7:06 PM on April 24, 2005

...the levels of solipsism required by a modern blog.
as opposed to an old-fashioned blog (possibly steam-powered)?
posted by wendell at 9:45 PM on April 24, 2005

All I see is this because I don't have iTunes installed. Nice.
posted by Orange Goblin at 3:08 AM on April 25, 2005

All I see is this because I don't have iTunes installed. Nice.

I have the same problems with WMA files that are linked to. Nice that Apple at least redirects you to a piece of software you can use rather than an error message.
posted by twistedonion at 8:22 AM on April 25, 2005

At least WMA are clearly marked with a .wma extension. I assumed the links went to descriptions of the tracks.
posted by Orange Goblin at 12:39 PM on April 25, 2005