Goodbye iTunes
As far as I’m concerned, iTunes has just been replaced. This is the future of music distribution right here. I stumbled onto Magnatune after hearing one of their artists on an Internet radio station … Claire Fitch … I had to immediately go find her album. They had it on iTunes, but I Googled her for more information, and that is when I found this place.
She has two albums. I picked up both. And after sampling the other artists, I know I’m going to be spending a lot of time here.
Just the fact that they have some amazing music sold me.
But beyond that, check out what Magnatune features:
- DRM Free music in the format of your choice, including uncompressed WAV.
- They encourage you to share the music by granting you license to give it to three of your friends.
- You get to choose how much you pay for it.
- If you ever lose it, you can download it again.
- You can listen to the entire song or album online before buying it.
- 50% of the money made by any sales, including merchandising, etc., goes directly to the artist.
- They are all about the music, the promotion of music, and consider the RIAA as evil.
What more can I say? Magnatunes is just plain groovy.
20071111 2:27 am
Agreed - that sounds awesome. It’s also a brilliant means of distribution and promotion of the artist; not the publisher
I say go Magnatune! If only other companies took the same approach, perhaps soon…