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| Radio Bump Reply Hazy, try again.  Saturday, July 29, 2000Here's a step in the right direction: eMusic has a new plan where you can pay $9.99 a month and have download access to every MP3 on their site. They have lots of good indy and major label stuff. That's less than the cost of one CD. If the major labels were smart, they'd each start a service like this. (via usr/bin/girl)
Update: I signed up for the plan and I'm finding all sorts of good stuff on their site. I'm listening to the Herbaliser's first album right now. This is the way this should be done, no micropayments, freedom to get the music I want and only keep the stuff I'm actually going to listen to. I'm cleaning up one of my extra computers and I'm going to stick it in the back of my walk in closet and store all my music on it. Perhaps I can move the bulk of my CD collection into storage in a couple of months after I've ripped them all to one of the four drives in this machine. 2:02:42 PM I'm a huge music consumer. I mean really huge. I buy at least two cd's a week, sometimes more. I have a huge CD and record collection, and music has always played an important role in my life. I look around my apartment and realize that I am the record label's idea of a best customer. I use Napster every single day at work. Rarely is it to check out music that I have never heard of, and almost never is it to download music I don't already own. Ocassionally I'll use it to check out some songs by a group somone has recommended to me directly or via a Web site, but if I like it, I always buy the cd. Part of the reason for my use of Napster is convenience. I don't have a 100 Gb hard drive to carry all of my CD's around with me, and I can rarely predict what I'm going to be in the mood to listen to. The other part is laziness. I don't have the free time to rip my thousands of CD's to MP3 to make my collection portable. In the end, it's good news they got the stay, but I think that the labels are being incredibly short sighted and I think everyone knows it but them. 12:08:51 AM
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