800-lb Gorilla Tests Download Market

It won't officially debut until next year, but Wal-Mart is testing their online music store now. It required Windows and WMP9, which is a strike against it, but it does have one very important point in its favor:

Each track is only 88 cents.

Music Downloads At Wal-mart

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Phillip Winn was the Chief Geek for Blogcritics, and a blogger since 1995. He may currently be found and followed as @pwinn on Twitter.

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  • 1 - Soundacious

    Dec 18, 2003 at 2:25 pm

    The way this bandwagon is being jumped on, you'd think there was actually some MONEY to be made in this. Apparently music download services are the next Tulip-mania.

  • 2 - TDavid

    Dec 18, 2003 at 5:56 pm

    Cool, thanks for posting about this, Phillip! I've got it bookmarked to check out.

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