Stevie Nicks, Music Pirate?

Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Macm showed up at Walter Reed Medical Center (on the list of recommended base closings) to visit with soldiers. Her appearance on July 8 was unannounced and paparazzi free. She handed out t-shirts and Apple iPods to those she visited with. One USO official noted that Nicks downloaded tunes to the iPods herself.

I certainly hope the songs are legal. Probably Fleetwood Mac and solo tunes.

On a similar note, President Bush isn't the only person in the White House who jams out with an iPod. Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary, two daughters gave her a gift for Mother's Day, an iPod mini (recently replaced by the iPod nano)

The iPod mini is jammed with songs from the Police, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, and the Carpenters. "She loves it," says a pal, "for her power walks and spinning class." Not at work, we hope, especially since many schools ban them.

Again, I hope the songs are all legal. It's not difficult to stay legal, You can buy songs from the iTunes Music Store for .99¢.

The .99¢ pricetag may change soon though as the recording industry is starting to get greedy again and talking about raising prices to $2 per tune.

Steve Jobs, of Apple Computer, Inc., recently spoke out against the idea of raising song prices saying that it is just the recording industry getting greedy and that higher prices will encourage piracy.

For the longest time, the RIAA claimed the reason record companies were losing money (if in fact they really really were) was because of piracy. A funny thing happened though after they lowered prices of CDs, people bought them.