If you like music like I do but despise the RIAA then I have a solution.
Magnatune: try before you buy MP3 music.
Enter Magnatune, a company who believes as I do! Nice to hear the musicians and others in the industry are as feed up with the RIAA as I am.
Here you can not only buy mp3's but can download a 100% digital copy of the entire CD!, Imagine paying for and downloading music that's in a high quality format, not that phase shifting poor quality mp3 crap. Yes, the future is here and it's easy going on the ears.
What I really, really like is the fact Magnatune pays the artists 1/2 of the sale price. 50% is unheard of in todays world as the music companies normally give the artist pennies per cd if that.
As a former Napster downloader I'm very happy to pay for good music that is #1 good, #2 affordable and #3 something the artist will actually make money from.
I'm jamming to the Electric Frankensteins now, good stuff.
Posted by Muddy at November 19, 2003 12:48 PM | TrackBackthanks for the link Muddy, i never would have heard of this place otherwise... it seems like grassroots efforts like magnatune have the odds stacked against them when going against the marketing resources giants like Napster, and next year the Microsoft music store. They definately have a great price structure compared to Apple store and Napster who give approx $.90 of each $.99 sale to the RIAA, $.04 to the artist and $.05 for the overhead.
My only problem is that those .mp3 files were SO 1996, they need to get with the times and use .ogg or .aac (mp4)
Posted by: bennhill1978 at November 20, 2003 09:50 PMWell I can't agree more, the mp3 format is old and tired. However they do offer a full quality wav download format which is very nice.
Posted by: muddy at November 21, 2003 01:08 AM