Music Downloads

[caddyman]

Now pay attention, chaps.

I know that anyone on my friends list who has an i-Pod stylee MP3 player or similar only copies their own CDs or downloads music from legitimate sites [/irony].

The trouble is that while considerably cheaper than buying CDs and copying them, individual albums are still generally a bit pricey for a full download.

I therefore commend the All of MP3 website to you.

It costs $2.25 (US) to download Kate Bush's new album, Aerial for instance, as opposed to between £7.99 and £9.99 from various other sites. Sadly, I can't check such prices on sites as CONNECT, HMV or Napster at the office as they all require their own proprietary interface applications which won't come through the firewall, but I do know that the UK sites are significantly more expensive.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

You may want to know that All of MP3 is so cheap because it uses a loophole in Russian copyright law which means that it only pays a fee to a Russian agency (who then pay a fee to the songwriter), and nothing at all to the artist or record label.

More information at: http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=1949

or

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1171203,00.html
Or you may not.

[ribble.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm the kind of chap that likes to have a CD in hand - to put on the shelf; the read the inlay; to throw across the room etc