wow,
i really can't believe this, since i thought it would
take a lot longer to get deals like this sorted out, but:
http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml?genreNameForDisplay=Jazz&genreDirectoryName=jazz&id=1122406
..has the story (emusic.com are offering a subscription
mp3 download service for their entire catalogue!), and:
http://www.emusic.com/subscription/index.html
..is the link.
And for $9.99 a month for a year's subscription, and
labels like Fax, Ninja Tune, Bomb HipHop, Kingsize,
Holistic (!!), Law And Auder, Moving Shadow, Ninebar,
Plug Research, Pharma, Pussyfoot, Recycle Or Die,
Quannum, Reinforced, Schematic, Tummy Touch, Transmat,
and Wordsound (that's just me going through their label
list looking for cool stuff..), well..
it's 9.99 a month if you subscribe for a year, 14.99
if you subscribe for 3 months, and 19.99 on a monthly
basis btw.
well, i just subscribed for a year since i was so
over-excited, and i can confirm you get unlimited
downloads on their entire site. this is great because
you'll actually be paying the artist (albeit a
relatively small amount) for downloading their mp3s,
you no longer need to worry about badly encoded,
messed-up, pirate mp3s, and the range of mp3s (over
125,000) that are tricky/impossible to find out there
on mp3 sites is amazing. The entire Recycle Or Die
back-catalog? Fax up the wazoo? I'm drooling as we
speak..
i think this deal is best for the electronica fan,
cos clearly emusic are making deals with independent
labels, in general, and there's lots of good smaller
labels out there that have already signed up with
them... and if enough people sign up, we'll be putting
quite a bit of money back into those independent labels,
too..
regards,
h0l/simon
(
http://www.mono211.com)
ps - since i haven't mentioned it of late, new material
on
http://www.mono211.com - monotonik eediots - includes
great new Sense mp3, new nu-skool breaks mix by Hoffman,
and new Vim! mp3 EP :)
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