Welcome to Day 2 of Life During BuyMusicTime, and we're happy to report that we're feeling a little more relaxed about the whole thing today. After all, this isn't the first time that somebody rushed out a cheap ripoff of an elegant and successful Apple product while denigrating the original to the press-- and we're sure it won't be the last. And just because BuyMusic.com is the most blatant copycat of a solid Apple product or service since the E-Power made its stubborn stain on the underwear of the computing industry ("ours is better than the iMac because it runs Windows and has a floppy drive"), surely that's no reason for us to suffer an aneurysm, right?

For example, faithful viewer Patrick McFarland notes that Buy.pimp Scott Blum was just shoveling his lies on the Howard Stern show a little while ago, calling BuyMusic the "first legal way to download music" and insisting that "the songs are only 79 cents." But is the fact that these bald-faced lies will likely be swallowed whole by a sizable chunk of Stern's listening audience any reason for us to grind our teeth down to the gumline while simultaneously stabbing ourselves in the thigh with a shrimp fork? No. At least, probably not. Especially since Scott brought Tommy Lee along for the ride, who reportedly came off as decidedly noncommittal about the whole project, as if he "didn't really care or know much about it." Funny... we just assumed it was Tommy who designed the back-end databases and coded the transaction engine. (He had to learn something in prison, right?)

But no, apparently Tommy Lee is that purest of product shills, the Cash-Desperate Nonuser. Oh, sure, while he made it sound like he was just helping out his buddy Scott with his "cool new site," we're guessing that Tommy received plenty of green that he can use for those pesky expenses that crop up from time to time (for instance, blank tapes for homemade porn, court costs, bail, replacement cookware, etc.). Indeed, unless Tommy's had a change of faith in the past year or two, he can't be a BuyMusic customer: he's a Mac user. At least, faithful viewer Joaquin saw him using a titanium PowerBook on VH1, and faithful viewer lotuseater notes that his pad is just lousy with Macs, as evidenced by a viewing of an old episode of MTV Cribs. Gee, and Apple never made him an AppleMaster?

So yeah, there's an inveterate corporate liar making the rounds and spreading $40 million worth of anti-iTMS deceit in his wake, all while dragging along an ex-con hair-metal drummer with a frying pan fixation for an air of respectability-- but like we said, we're perfectly at peace with that. Yup. No reason to, say, hyperventilate with indignation and rage until our eyes burst in their sockets.

Nope.

But just in case, does anyone have any suggestions on how best to mop up one's own aqueous and vitreous humor while blind? It sounds difficult, so we're just sitting on a big tarp until this whole thing blows over.

Pressure... building...