iTunes Art

Ok, so I was browsing the iTunes Music Store today and came across this image.

Now, mind you, I realize that there’s not a red blooded male on the planet who hasn’t used the opportunity to admire a young lady’s necklace as a front for admiring her neckline. It may be nearly as American as apple pie (or at least as American as American Pie). In fact, on an episode of House, Dr Chase said to a teenage boy getting a spinal tap: “Hey isn’t that a nice necklace Doctor Cameron is wearing?” aka “Hey kid, from this angle you can totally see down her shirt, which will distract you from the pain of having this needle shoved in your spine.”

And really, if you could distract a teenage boy getting a needle shoved in his spine and refused… well that’s just mean.

Anyway, back to the picture at hand. My reaction wasn’t quite “that’s in poor taste” (there’s not even a cleavage line or anything, it’s purely hinted at)… but not quite “purely innocent” either (I think it’s the open button that tips the scale).

Someone in the art department at the iTunes Store had a chuckle putting this together.

I was at the iTunes Store because I ordered some iPod accessories from someplace having a “Buy for $25 and get a $25 iTunes gift certificate” sale. I bought two such items. Their website accidentally charged me $30 for one of them. I emailed them and they said “OOps, we’ll fix that. Would you like your $5 back or another $10 in iTunes?” Given that shipping was a total of $10, I took the extra iTunes stuff and broke completely even on the deal. The only annoying part was having to copy and paste 60 separate codes from my email to iTunes. The system is definitely not designed for entering a lot of them at once.

A sided note: these “free songs” at the iTunes Store are just that: free songs. It is not the same thing as having $60 worth of credit at the iTunes Store. You can buy 60 songs. You cannot buy a complete album and get the album discount. You cannot buy videos. You cannot buy audiobooks. Just songs.

I asked Tracey for some suggestions because I had to use the certificates by the end of September. At first I thought she was going to have trouble too, but then she found the “iTunes Essentials” (basically a “Greatest Hits” collection). She went through each decade, lingering just a bit too long on the ’80s, but we are what we are. (No I will not post a list of what we bought there, because some of it is just too embarrassing… yes, much more embarrassing than admitting the whole necklace/neckline thing, which 90% of guys (at least hetero guys) will admit to… and 10% of guys are liars.