For those of you who haven’t heard, Facebook and itunes are offering their users 25 pre-selected songs a week
This week’s ‘alternative’ list:
The Kill – 30 Seconds to Mars
Elevate Myself – Grandaddy
Honesty � Cartel
Consolation Prizes � Phoenix
Fraud in the ’80s – Mates of State.
Take Off Your Clothes � Morningwood
Blackout – Amusement Parks on Fire
Out Here All Night – Damone
Sway – The Perishers
Bonnie Brae – The Twilight Singers
Hair – The Early November
Boston – Augustana
Flavor – Girls In Hawaii
Open Book – The Rakes
Midnight – Novatone
Wild Garden – Magneta Lane
Calm – Maritime
Je Ne Te Connais Pas – Prototype
Cloud Watch – Lol Hammond
Landslide – Chris Stills
Light Pollution – Dirty on Purpose
Creation Lake – The Movie
Poison – My American Heart
Fly Me Away – Goldfrapp
Wish I Was a Punk Rocker – Sandi Thom
January 1st, 2001 at 12:00 am
woah, this is really interesting from a business perspective.. makes a lot of sense, though.
July 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
well, I’m not too sure about that. It doesn’t actually cost itunes anything to give away songs (well, maybe a tiny tiny bit for infrastructure and whatnot). However, I don’t think they will gain significant revenue from the promotion. They are hopin that people will hear a song, like a band, and then buy more songs off itunes.
The thing that I’ve always hated about buying itunes music is that you can only authorize 5 computers to play purchased songs. Really, this just encourages one to steal a song so that it can be played anywhere. The other problem is that it doesn’t make sense that a song costs $1. If you were to buy an album, you will be paying around $1 per song but you get a physical cd. How is it possible that the cost of the album (burning, printing, shrinkwrapping, shipping, stocking, etc) is equivalent to that of a digital one? In addition, the price of an album hasn’t change significantly over the years even though the price of recording equipment has gone down. Music feels overpriced because it is.
The chosen bands are ‘new-er’ and ‘indie-er’ but my guess is that you will still be able to download stuff from at least half of the bands off limewire or something similiar.
On the PR side, they stand to gain, since it is pretty ‘cool’ that they are giving away music.
July 27th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Agh. I’d forgotton the name..
hymn is a really cool way of de-DRMing Apple’s FairPlay algorithm
I’ve used it successfully in the past — basically, you run hymn on the file somewhere where you’re authorized (the downloading computer) and then can pass it anywhere, forever, like a standard M4A.
Win!
So who wants to do that and post to soda?
July 30th, 2006 at 12:36 am