Ring tones have officially gotten out of hand

After having my cell phone, the ubiquitious T610, for a few months I got a little tired of the same little dittys that they give you to serve as your ring tones and I ventured out to see what else was out there. …but I wasn’t about to pay for any of them. I tried a few old favorites from places I found on the net, or friends that has some. I had “When I Come Around” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for a month or so, but then I realized that I felt a little stupid that one time someone called me in public and my phone played a song…just like the teenage girl’s phone next to me. I needed to get a new ring tone.

This is where it gets sad…

I just wanted a regular phone ring. No song. No jingle. Just a ring. So I went to my phone, there has to be a stock, “regular ring” on my phone right? Nope. All were jingles, nothing that resembled a regular ring. So I turned to the web. MyT610 has pages and pages of ring tones. The problem was no category sounded like it would have normal grown-up ring tones. So I went through the list…and after 2 South Park episodes and a lot of needless little downloads to see what the ring called “ringtone00232.mid” sounded like, I found 2 regular rings…two…in fact the last two in the list. Their names were BusinessRing1 and BussinessRing2.

Does anyone else see a problem with the fact that, not only did it take me way too much time to just find a regular phone ring, but that there were only 2 on a site, that its sole purpose is to give you ring tones and has a listing of thousands? Seriously. Thats rediculous!

Sometimes I really think this world is coming to an end and the only harbinger of our impending demise will be a ringtone…probably by Hillary Duff.