Now, CDs gather dust on store shelves, and online music vendors may not hold on to their 99-cents-per-song pricing for long.

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Unofficially, not realizing she was on an open line, she started it by complaining about the lame music that call participants listen to while on hold waiting for it to begin.

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Dial the 800 number, work through a dizzying array of menu choices, choose to speak with a human being and wait on hold listening to music for 20 minutes to two hours (it happened to me once) and you might reach a person who can (in only 70% of my cases) provide definitive, final help.

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Sure, it can play music, it can play video, all on the TV screen you already hold dear!

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Feast on your flesh and hold you in my belly till the mark of this beast music dissolves from your forehead, scrapes itself clean from the bones of your hands.

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Music fans with voracious appetites for new tunes might want to hold out, though, for the Comes With Music-equipped version that follows on "early next year" at a to-be-announced price.

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Why spend millions of dollars on the high-cost of production, when your own fans may hold the key to the ultimate music video?

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My eldest brother would practice the trumpet on a rock near the waterfall not far from our house, and my second brother would hold his music sheets, acting as a music stand.

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