But he gladly pays 50 bucks a month for tinny sounding snippets of the same songs.
Outside, waves lapped the black shore, and tinny music blared from a party way down the beach.
The tinny percussion, rhythmic acoustic guitars and wispy synth keyboard lines on "Granny's Song" give the track a certain airiness.
Quite an accomplishment for a manufacturer whose earliest exports to the U.S., in 1986, were tinny and prone to breakdown.
The echoes in the dialogue aren't evocative, they're dissonant and tinny (except for Cate Blanchett's marvelously husky channeling of Marlene Dietrich).
It's not just the tinny noise that leaks out of the puny ear buds but the barrier the device erects between people.
Tiny, tinny TR-55s, TR-63s, and the 1962 TR-620 (pictured top left) were suddenly ubiquitous, and the shirt-pocket radio became a cultural icon.
Finally, no longer is there much truth in the image of Left-Bank fleapits with scratchy projection, tinny sound, and usherettes demanding tips.
As with so many other laptops (especially ultraportables), the audio is thin and tinny, as if it were trapped behind the speaker grille.
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The built-in speaker sounds tinny, and dialing people directly from the contact list is not as elegantly handled as it is on Handspring's Treo.
The result is a vegetable too bitter and tinny for even the most forgiving palate the taste equivalent of sucking on old pennies.
Inside the brick are a fairly powerful microprocessor, a Bluetooth radio, a tinny speaker and enough memory to store a mingy 118 kilobytes of user programs.
Aside from the prospect of even svelter devices, the tech has the potential to sound miles better than the tinny-sounding speaker drivers most of our gadgets currently use.
For a while, Benson imbibed the philosophy of a gaudier and more complex sphere, heard the tinny music of their radios and stared into the dazzle of the day.
When creating the inMotion Air, the engineers at Altec Lansing were aware that the sound quality of Bluetooth audio was typically described as "tinny" and left something to be desired.
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There's not much to those memories, but I distinctly recall the tinny circus sounds accompanying the opening animation of Clowns and Balloons and a fez-sporting monkey perched on a high wire.
Blondy was like a skater up his own river, a frozen ribbon the rest of us might have glimpsed through trees, from within a rink where we circled to tinny music.
The built-in speaker is somewhat tinny but loud enough.
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The device, which resembles a Roomba vacuum cleaner, attaches itself to a pane, maps out its perimeter and proceeds to clean the surface, playing a tinny tune when the work is completed.
It isn't the best-sounding smartphone speaker and cranking up the volume on our latest Spotify playlists resulted in heavy distortion and a generally tinny sound -- although that's what headphones are for.
Its members turn "Sorry Angel" Gainsbourg's tinny, mostly spoken-word meditation on regret into a mostly sung dance-floor romp, complete with vintage cooing by Gainsbourg muse (and Hermes bag namesake) Jane Birkin.
That old piano is a big part of the appeal: Its tinny sound is run through a 1950s amplifier, adding layers of fuzz and grit, so it's as if you're listening to a very old recording of a very new song.
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