Amazon MP3s – I feel a little dirty
I was picking up some new music for an upcoming trip when I thought I’d look at the Amazon.com MP3 Download store. I’ve done 100% of my music purchasing on iTunes for the last few years because it is just so easy the way things are integrated with my iPods. I was surprised to see how easy Amazon has made it not only for those of us that use iPods, but OS X itself.
Amazon provides a decent downloader that brings down the music and adds it to your iTunes library automatically. It’s completely browser based so it’s not as seamless as iTunes, but I think it’s about as good as we’re going to get with a vanilla web browser for a while.
But the fun didn’t stop there. I picked up 3 “albums” (is that really still a valid term?) and not only were they $2(US) cheaper per album, but they even had one that iTunes did not carry – an old Radiohead album. $7.99 for the full album definitely has my attention. The no DRM piece is a nice bonus as well, and I’m happy to take 256k MP3 files for less money.
I think iTunes finally has a little competition here and competition should be good for the consumer. I felt a little like I was cheating on iTunes with the first purchase. The second click was easier, and by the third click the guilt was gone and I was just begging to get caught.
Nice job Amazon, I’ll be sure to check your store as well as iTunes when i am looking for music in the future.
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