Friday, February 24, 2006

Billionth Download

Some kid downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay from iTunes.
He did not know it, but it was the billionth song the site had sold.
So at 12:45 a.m., his phone rang. It was an Apple employee, telling him that in addition to the song, Apple was giving him a 20-inch iMac, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift card for the iTunes store. It is even establishing a scholarship at the Juilliard School in his name.

4 comments:

D said...

He's also being grounded for getting called at his parents' home at 12:45am waking his father who has to get up at "the ass-crack of dawn so I can go to work and put food on the table and feed my good for nuthin' son."

Anonymous said...

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul said...

I also found that to be curious, why did they call a 16 year old kid in the middle of the night? Maybe the download had just happened, so they knew he was awake?

Paul said...

thank god, I was about to have the "Free Master Bates" t-shirts printed up. I guess the march on your office building won't be necessary anymore either.