Nah, just a recommendation. I like to promote businesses that are novel and promote free market ideals.
As a player and protector of property rights, I am not too keen on piracy of recorded music. The Industry (capital I to denote nefariousness) however, is so brain dead and so out of touch with its customers that it is hard to support its absolute opposition to mp3s and file sharing.
EMusic is a great legal outfit that allows subscribers (from $10/month) to download tons of great music. I don't know the arrangement, but these good folks have almost all of the Concord Jazz catalog available, plus a lot of great latin stuff (Just got two Celia Cruz CDs -- RIP, Queen C!)
You can sign up for 30 days free to try it out. I don't know if the non-jazz sections are as strong, but you can find out -- fer nuthin'!
Supporting a legal distribution method might bring Schumpeterian-gales of reform to the big-bad music Industry. Check it out.
Posted by jk at July 28, 2003 04:01 PMBravo to Apple in their new music service as well. Why shouldn't music be purchased song by song? Why should I be forced to buy 13 tracks if I only like 1? Back in the old days of 45's it was done that way - OK there was a "B" side, but close. The album seems to be only a product of the production technology of the LP where cost efficiecy was only obtained by pressing many tracks onto one piece of vinyl. With today's technology there is really no reason to by a piece of plastic at all with your music, just the digital info itself. If songs were sold at $.99 as Apple has suggested the music industry would likely see an increase in revenue as more music and more artists could be supported.
Posted by: Silence Dogood at August 4, 2003 10:16 AM