MusicRebellion.com

Written by Ken Edwards
Published January 31, 2004

Talk about low prices on digital music! This site sells music based on popularity. The more popular the song/album, the more it costs. It is a shame its WMA based, but why would it be anything else? So if you are a Windows user, this might be something to check into. They do have independent music in MP3 though.

They have a rather extensive FAQ page to read though.

The site has a couple ways of paying, interesting is the option to use a PayPal account.

My only question is this: Can you burn these WMA tracks out to CD as a red book audio CD? I am not familiar at all with using Windows Media Player. I am a Mac user and have an iPod but would love to pay on average 30 cents a track for my tunes. Does anyone burn audio CDs out of Windows Media Player?

Here is an price comparison: I would consider OutKast to be "popular" especially with "Hey Ya!" From the iTMS it costs $19.98 for the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2 disc set. I know this because it is the latest thing I have bought from the iTMS. From MusicRebellion.com the same album costs $11.20. The song "Hey Ya!" is a mere 34 cents! Music Rebellion only has the edited version, but thats a difference of $8.78. Music Rebellion does have many albums that have all the swearing in them, just not in this example.

What I find odd is finding artists like Metallica who are not on the iTMS at all. I wonder if there are any other such discrepancies.

Originally posted on Breaking Windows.

Ken Edwards is the Gaming Editor at Blogcritics, and calls Breaking Windows home. Ken works part time for Student Publications at BGSU as the Webmaster and System Administrator. He is also a freelance web developer.

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#1 — January 31, 2004 @ 13:46PM — Eric Olsen

Thanks Ken, they are also having a special right now with 300 songs for only $.05 each - that's cheap.

#2 — January 31, 2004 @ 15:22PM — TDavid [URL]

I like those micropayment services like bitpass and peppercoin. I think we'll see more of this on the web in the future as impulse buying with pocket change is easy to do :)

Ken, thanks for sharing!

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