Popular channel MTV, best known for sucking the big one, and willingly comatosing children worldwide, has plans with Microsoft to start offering music downloads sometime in 2006. The idea is to jump on the so called "music" bandwagon, and compete with the likes of iTunes, Yahoo and Napster.

The prices aren’t being made known at this time, but hecklerspray bets MTV sells out. The past, after all, is the best predictor of the future.

Bill Gates and some guy probably named Viacom must be racquetball
buddies, because their two babies – MTV and Microsoft
anti-respectively – are about to tag team the world of music downloads.

In the year 2006 (A.D) MTV and Microsoft will offer a digital download service
in an attempt to steal the ball from all around music champion iTunes.
The packages they will offer will be both the fee per song kind, and
the dumb, really, really dumb monthly rental deal.

The two M’s should be careful though, as the music download business
is a tough one to make it in. Sure, iTunes sells tons, but they’re not
even trying to sell music – they’re in it to move iPods. Then there’s
Napster, the probable inventor of the idiotic month to month music
rental mumbo-jumbo.

Though they’ve reportedly just spread their
crumbled wings to include bits of Europe, they’ve yet to make a dime.
It went live in the US on October 29, 2003, and after a full fiscal
year had only about 410,000 subscribers.  Sure, for a new name that’d
probably be good, but how many members did Napster have before? The
answer there, friends, is gazillions.

And what’s with this shady MTV channel turning to music anyway?
Doesn’t MTV stand for Mega retarded rich teenagers Television? What do
they know about prose and meter? MTV messing with music is a bit
like a farmer flying a spaceship.

Stick to your fields of teenage
angst, farmer, and leave the music to that old astronaut-loving Music
Television station, whatever it was called.

Read more:

MTV, Microsoft team up for digital music service – Reuters

[story by Shawn Lindseth]