Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tarmac on September 28, 2003, 11:22:57 PM
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http://magnatune.com/
I just found this tonight, and I am extremely impressed. You can listen to all of their stuff through streaming audio. If you like it, you can download the album in either a .wav or .mp3 zip file. You pay by credit card.
Now here's the kicker. Half, yes half, of the money you pay goes to the artist! You can even choose how much you want to pay for the album! $8 bucks is the recommended amount for the album I'm liking so far, and after I listen to the whole thing I'm probably going to buy it to test things out. You can actually pay more or less for the album, knowing that the more you pay, the more the artist will pocket.
No major artists on there, but hey, I can listen before I buy so I know I'm getting music that I like.
What a freakin' concept. I'm still trying to look for the catch, but I'm not seeing it so far.
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ROFL! Well if they claim not to be evil on their home page, then sure why not!? :D
Neat stuff!
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oh man, they stream through winamp... it's easily rippable.
This could be a problem for'em...
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And it's probably on Kazaa too.
I'll pay for it just to say to the RIAA.
ed: oh yeah, and to support the artist. :)
... and to support the business model.
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Originally posted by Octavius
oh man, they stream through winamp... it's easily rippable.
This could be a problem for'em...
Everything which goes through the speakers, is easily rippable.. so I don't really see whats the difference in providing it already in MP3 format, when it'll end up to MP3's sooner than soon in any case :D