In todays age, 99 cents for 2 minutes of silence is a good deal!

I'm surpised people haven't noticed this before. It is common knowledge by music lovers that a wide variety of artists have published named tracks of silence on their albums. Famously, the estate of John Cage and Mike Batt got into a copyright suit about whether Mike Batt had stolen the same piece of silence for a silent track that he credited in memory of Cage...

Of course since these are tracks off an album, you can buy them for 99c off the Apple iTunes store. News.com points out that of the silent options on iTunes:

For those looking for the best value, Schaeffer offers nearly two minutes of silence, almost twice as much as any of the other tracks.

and

three of the tracks--all titled "Silent" and all by hip-hop group Slum Village--are labeled as explicit, even though there is only silence. For those who worry that the lack of sound will be too racy, iTunes offers "clean versions" as well.

For ultimate listening pleasure, I'm going to go listen to a silent track on my Sony noise cancelling headphones!