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Complete Led Zeppelin for Ninety-Nine Bucks (and Ninety-Nine Cents, of course)

Never mind your musical peccadillos, you have to at least consider the complete Led Zeppelin collection for a steely-eyed penny-less-than-a-hundred.

Don't you?

Labels: itunes, music

Amazon MP3 Downloads Should Give iTunes a Run for Their Money (Finally)

Now here's a company that could actually give Apple and the iTunes store a run for it's money. Amazon.com is now offering mp3 downloads, and they're high-quality, no DRM versions of the tunes, often at lower prices than you can buy them at the iTunes store. The top 100 songs are always 89 cents.

Go check it out: Amazon.com mp3 Store.

I should probably note that I'm a big fan of the iTunes store, and love how it works, and I'm such an Apple booster that I'm invested in the company and won't buy a computer without that fruit on it and a bite taken out. But I will buy songs from Amazon.com if they are cheaper and better quality, and I will bet you that the songs (and the software Amazon.com supplies to get your mp3 downloads on) will run slickly on my mac and on your mac and on your pc and on your iPod and any other thingamabob you might play music on.

If I purchase and play and find any different, I'll let you know. Because I'm that sort of guy. Letting you know.

Hm. What should I try first?

Labels: Amazon.com, itunes, music

Starbucks does iTunes "Song of the Day" Cards

We here at the Bain Books Blog do love when "our cool companies" link up and get together and create that "synergy" you've been hearing about on the internets.

When the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks launches in New York and Seattle on Tuesday, October 2nd, the coffee giant will be armed with promotions.

First of all, they'll distribute 1.5 million "Song of the day" cards across 10,000 locations. Each card will provide a free single from artists like Bob Dylan [...], Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews via iTunes (US). They'll be valid until the end of 2007.

Also, select Starbucks locations will sell "iTunes Digital Release Cards," which allow customers to download music and bonus materials [...] from artists like KT Tunstall and Eddie Vedder.

[linko Starbucks to distribute iTunes "Song of the day" cards - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]

Okay. Full disclosure. I'm invested (in a very small way) in both Starbucks and Apple. So I'm doubly pleased by arrangements like this one.

Labels: itunes, starbucks, synergy

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