OK, I’m a little annoyed with you. Yes, you. All of you.
See, as you well know, I’ve been waiting for Amazon’s MP3 download service to become available in the UK. I like the idea, and I don’t like DRM, and I’ve been patiently drumming my fingers on the desk for a year waiting for it to become non-USA-only.
Full disclosure: I have in the past used one or more of the quasi-legal (read “deeply illegal if you’re being even slightly honest”) Russian MP3 sites that still to this day spring hydra-like from the still-spurting neck stump of the previous incarnation faster than you can say “The RIAA are coming”. I’m not proud of it, but there you go. It felt a little bit less like stealing if I was handing over a couple of cents per track, regardless of who it actually went to.
Anyhow, you know full well that I’ve been waiting for such an event, and none of you – not ONE of you – told me that play.com is already doing fully DRM-free MP3 downloads at a price that undercuts iTunes.
Watch it, or I might start taking things like this personally.
–c.
Aha, I’ve been waiting for this too and had no idea till I read this. Still a bit too expensive for me though. Rightly or wrongly a lot of people have been too used to downloading music for free (or for $2 an album from the Ruskies) to feel like paying £7 for an album.