Except they're $8.10. And you have to buy the whole single (ie. all the songs, not just a song at a time so you could just buy the b-sides if you so wished). But at least this stuff is available where before it wasn't.
Pity about Seventh and Soundscape ruining the fun for everyone. How many times must their fans download their songs? As many as it takes it seems. But hey, that's just my opinion...
The article above is very similar to one I read a few days ago in the paper explaining that the next crackdown on copyright will be ringtones. This is definitely the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Record companies should think a bit about the difference between 'alternative to buying record' and 'mass free advertising'.
Sonic, your 12 cents is in the mail.
"anyone trying to turn the tracks on the Charley Pride CD into MP3s will find themselves redirected to a website that will authenticate the CD, and then let them download legitimate Windows Media versions of the tracks they want."
It's pretty much the first time I've read that comes right out and says "if you want music on your computer you'll have to buy it again".
Sure you could argue they're just trying to catch those who want to copy from a friend etc. but I'm sure any survey done would find that 99% of people ripping are ripping their own CDs.
Lets hope that the backlash against pointless reformatting of music starts here. Vinyl->CD had an excuse (much better quality, more features) as did Video->DVD but CD->Random Digital format? I suppose you can attach a link to a webpage with artist info to a digital file. Oh yay. Big woop.