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Listen.com to Offer Dollar-a-Track Burn-Your-Own CDs
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, October 24 @ 23:02:48 EDT File Sharing
Starting this Monday, Listen.com's Rhapsody subscription music service will offer users the ability to burn unlimited CDs on a pay-as-you-go basis for 99 cents a track. The deal covers music from Warner and Universal. (Want news coverage? Try Google News:listen+CD).

Much as LawMeme appreciates the lip service being paid to consumer choice, a few unpleasant facts remain, not least that of price. Over at Amazon, LawMeme can buy The Eminem Show for $14.99. This same CD, weighing in at 20 tracks, would cost $19.80 through Rhapsody (not even counting the $9.95 monthly fee). The Who: The Ultimate Collection? $20.99 in stores, but 35 tracks at 99 cents a pop works out to $34.65.

 
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20 tracks = 2 months (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Thursday, October 24 @ 23:08:52 EDT
Don't forget that not only will the 20 tracks cost you 150% as much to download and burn, it'll take you 2 months to complete your aquisition. Rhapsody only lets you burn 10 tracks a month!

If someone would come out with an all-you-can eat filesharing service with high quality rips of every track ever made in a common format (MP3, not DRM protected crap) for a reasonable fee ($10/month), it would be a total success. It wouldn't worth my time to use any other filesharing service and have to put up with crappy rips, incomplete downloads, trojaned files, cucko's eggs and other nonsense.

We're still waiting.


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What more do you want? (Score: 1)
by hari on Friday, October 25 @ 11:23:27 EDT
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First everyone complains that a CD costs $20, and there's only one or two good tracks on it. I should be able to pay just for the tracks I want! What a ripoff!

Now they give you what you ask for. The complaint changes: to buy all 20 tracks on an album will cost you more than the CD! What a ripoff!

Rhapsody sounds like a big huge giant step in the right direction.


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