Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows was released on download earlier this week to great anticipation from fans. Their first release since 2003, In Rainbows is only available directly from the Radiohead website, but in a ground-breaking move, fans get to choose how much they pay for the music - anything from the 45p processing fee [...]
For those of us who can’t live without a daily dose of caffeine or music, there may be some good news coming up. The current speculation is that you could soon walk into Starbucks, buy a caramel macchiato and download the latest U2 release onto your iPod. Full rumor-mongering here.
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Bleep.com came to my attention this week after winning the Best Music Store at this years Digital Music Awards. Although the store is still relatively small, it beat iTunes and Napster to the title due to its eclectic and abstract content, high encoding rates and insistance of having all music DRM free. From the site:
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Various news sites are awash with the high profile targetting of Russian download site allofMP3.com. Possibly the best explanation is here at The Register.
Tim Jupp had previously warned me about the ‘grey area’ this was causing in the music industry so it was only a matter of time really. Price aside, there’s still a need [...]
I’ve recently been buying a lot of albums off the iTunes Music Store, partly because it’s relatively cheap, but mainly because it’s instantaneous. Now don’t get me wrong, I will always prefer having a physical copy of a CD, but it has become so convenient to get the latest music straight onto my ipod and [...]
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