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    "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    There's a cure for this... It's called last.fm.
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    Image of TalbotSmith TalbotSmith
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    I'm feelin' a big resurgence for REM.
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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    I feel my age is showing, but I can't possibly fathom hiring anyone to decorate my home or tell me how to dress. Hell, I can't even hire someone to clean once a week because I'm afraid they'll think I'm a slob.


    But seriously, hire someone to 'style' your music for you? To me that's the same as hiring someone to buy books for your place based on the color/age/material of the bindings and how they accent your decor. Totally without thought or soul and the very definition of lazy. Want to discover new music? Browse iTunes! Like what you've got and want a mix to play for your dinner party? Sit in the room, decide on the mood, think of who you're inviting then get to your computer and go to work. Or do it the quickie way and use Genius.


    Holy cats, what's next? Professional ass-pickers?

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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    11/05/08

    @Gretchen: Oh, and get a grip on reality you rich-and-hung-up-on-perfection folk. Its background music people, not rocket science.


    /rant. Gretchen is crabby from dealing with hyper kids today whilst hung over. My next project for the evening will be to start a grass roots movement to push my state legislators to pass a law banning the sale of energy drinks to anyone under the age of 18. Because dealing with 50 HS students at 8 am who are hyper from chugging 2 Monsters on the way to school needs to be dealt with. Being in that situation should be FUCKING AGAINST THE LAW.


    ....Oh, Moses in a basket there I go again.

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    Image of PrincessCarrie PrincessCarrie
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    Will someone hire me to tell them what to watch on TV? I will even give you a list of Talking Points for a nominal fee. Won't you be popular with your hipster co-workers when you start talking about The Mysterious Absence of Don Draper or the Wacky Single Girl Adventures of Liz Lemmon. Only $599 for my series of informative guides to TV, or "TV Guides" if you will.
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    Image of SergeKinkapoo SergeKinkapoo
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    This would be cool if it benefited the artists/labels supplying the music. It seems doubtful that these lifestyle service providers or their clients are paying what they should to ASCAP. Since the smug little music experts don't charge on a per track basis, it seems kind of illegal.
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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    11/05/08

    @SergeKinkapoo: They don't have to. If all of the music is legally purchased by the client, that person can hire anyone they want to mix it for their personal use. However, it would be illegal for the 'music expert' to provide mixes for the clients without those clients purchasing the music or paying the proper royalties.
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    Image of Elaken Elaken
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    As a country music fan and a science fiction reader, I have gotten over wasting anytime on what people might think of my choices. When you listen to and read the more maligned genres you soon learn it is about pleasing yourself not others.
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    Image of quatrevingtquatre quatrevingtquatre
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    This has been done already. It is called Pandora. And it is FREE.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    This is so demode. I have the reanimated corpse of Mozart create custom minuets for me, for the different parts of my day. I love them so much I find I now cannot void or make love without them.
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    Image of amowls amowls
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    I guess some people don't have time to scour the internet for shit they might like and the time to download it and put it on cds.


    It makes sense. In a way, Last.FM does this for me.

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    Image of mizz2bee mizz2bee
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    Could be a great present for the clueless friend who is stuck in 1988.
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    Image of shan_a_rama shan_a_rama
    11/05/08

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    So, where do I send my resume. I would have absolutely zero problems making extra bank doing this. And yes, I would be gut-busting lauging all the way to the bank.
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    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    I would love to do this, but I think my career would be short-lived:
    "I asked you to curate a playlist for my villa, and you gave me a collection of songs from the Muppets and The Last Unicorn, interspersed with Sigur Ros!"


    "What, you don't LIKE the Muppets?"

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    Image of blue_streak blue_streak
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    We hoi polloi will have to settle for internet radio. Radio Paradise on the patio, Groove Salad in the bedroom!
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    Image of Video et Taceo Video et Taceo
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    Oh yes. I am very familiar with the "judgmental hipster ass" archetype of which you speak. Sophomore year of high school my former bestie discovered her dad's copy of The Wall and it was all over with - the girl who had considered Coldplay and NSync to be the height of musical acheivement became a classic rock *expert* in a matter of days (thanks Wikipedia!) and traded in her entirely Gap and Banana Republic wardrobe for a rotation of about thirty of those Urban Outfitters faux-vintage tees. Gah. I hate hipsters.
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    Image of I, Zombie Normal I, Zombie Normal
    11/05/08

    In reply to "Personal Music Stylists" Will Pick The Soundtracks Of Your Lives
    More jobs I'd like to have, based on the disposable income of rich folk:


    Personal Paper Products Stylist

    Favorite Channels Programmer

    Pantry and Fridge Food Organizer

    Pet Stylist and Wardrobe Consultant

    Sycophant

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