Anyway, Amazon is trying to muscle in on iTunes's domination of selling downloaded music, and one way they're doing that is by picking fifty albums -- do you whippersnappers still call them "albums" these days? -- every month to sell for the low low price of $5. And, inevitably, there's a banner to go with it:
(If I wasn't wedded to having actual CDs as back-ups, I'd probably be jumping to buy the new Neko Case record from them.)
They've got plenty of other discount prices and lists of famous/important/good records up as well, for those of you who have made the jump to buying their music purely digitally. And, as I recall, Amazon is relatively DRM-free in this area, unlike their Kindle ebooks.
If you need baby stuff, Amazon sells that, too -- at this point, they seem to sell just about everything from fancy shoes to car parts -- and they're running a contest through the end of the year to encourage customers to set up baby registries with Amazon. One lucky customer each month will win a $3,000 "Dream Baby Registry"
, and the rest of you will at least get the chance to guilt friends and family into buying you baby stuff.This concludes our commercial messages; we return to The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent., already in progress.
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After their announcement on Twitter yesterday, I picked up The Crystal Method's new album for $3. No DRM. Checkout was the typical 45 seconds. Had to download a goofy downloader, but it was quick and painless.
It's nice to see that buying albums has finally caught up with technology.
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