Staring half-sleepily into my monitor last night, I was basking in the ether of Enya's Isobella while browsing Amazon.com, looking at stuffs that I don't have the money for nor need. The sound quality of this file isn't too good, I thought to myself. Too bad for one of Enya's best. So I looked up Isobella in the "mp3 download" section of Amazon and was surprised that the rare track's actually there for download for $0.99. Not that I can purchase it, I said. My bank account's absolutely dried up. Minus, even. So absent-mindedly I hovered my cursor to the "Buy Now" button and clicked on it. All of a sudden a window popped up asking me where I would like to save the file to. I stared at my screen in disbelief. Is this for real? I was hesitant for a moment, but then, ah, what the heck. So I just saved the file to my hard drive... and the song was immediately downloaded. Before I could recover from my confusion and amazement, my laptop made that cheery 'ding!' indicative of the file done being downloaded. I'll probably get in trouble for this, I thought, and sure enough, today I got an email from Amazon asking me that my card's been declined and that I need to update my method of payment. I borrowed my Pa's credit card to settle this, ("I'm a fraud! I have made an illegal transaction!" I laughed all the while) and inquired Amazon how I could pay up for the song. Not long after that, they sent me an email saying that they could not charge me because of "accounting and security reasons", so finally they said (grudgingly, I assume) :
"...you can keep the downloaded track as free gift from Amazon.com."
Wow. If I had known this would happen, I would have bought a whole album!
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