Amazon MP3 Store
I’ve bought music online before plenty of times. Pearl Jam live albums, rarities, digital only compilations, things like that. But today for the first time I bought a legit normal full length album from Amazon instead of going to Best Buy to get the physical CD. I have a slightly embarassing obsession with the Killers for awhile and their new album is full of ridiculous 80’s synth pop goodness. I was pleasantly surprised at how well Amazon worked. The album cost $3.99 (for 10 songs), the MP3’s are variable bit rate 256k with no DRM and the little program thingie automatically added them to iTunes and started playing after 1 click on the website. I’m still hesitant to buy through iTunes with all the DRM garbage and I feel like Apple already owns enough of my soul but for $4 I can definitely get use to this. I especially enjoy that you can stream pieces of all the songs right before clicking on buy which has gave me second thoughts about buying the new Kanye - what is with all the singing? Lame.
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