What Momus stuff can you download?
Feb. 15th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusHello, I'm Momus and apart from being a blogger, an artist and a journalist, I'm a musician who's made umpteen albums and is making the humpty flipth right at this very moment. Now, I've been hearing that Momus albums are finally appearing on iTunes music store, but I gather that iTunes gives different results depending on where you are in the world. This is what I get when I search iTunes for Momus:
Perhaps because of a previous cookie, I seem to be getting the German iTunes store even though I'm now in Japan. So could anyone in any country who uses iTunes check what Momus material is available, and leave a comment here telling me what records of mine are up there? I'd also be interested to know what Momus stuff is available on eMusic or other services you know about for downloading music, and what comes up on any free p2p services you use.
Don't worry, I'm in favour of a "mixed economy" of online music, ie I'm quite happy that some stuff should be free and some should be for sale. Post anonymously if you have draconian persecution of music downloaders going on in your country.
Perhaps because of a previous cookie, I seem to be getting the German iTunes store even though I'm now in Japan. So could anyone in any country who uses iTunes check what Momus material is available, and leave a comment here telling me what records of mine are up there? I'd also be interested to know what Momus stuff is available on eMusic or other services you know about for downloading music, and what comes up on any free p2p services you use.
Don't worry, I'm in favour of a "mixed economy" of online music, ie I'm quite happy that some stuff should be free and some should be for sale. Post anonymously if you have draconian persecution of music downloaders going on in your country.
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I know I'm late replying to this, but...
Date: 2006-02-26 05:08 pm (UTC)In an ideal world, $10 for a CD would break down into $1 for the disc and box, $1 for the artwork, $2 or $3 for shipping, and $5 for you. Unfortunately, reality seems to be more a case of $20 for the CD, and you get about $1. Or rather, $20 for the CD and it sits in the store for a couple of years until it turns up on half.com for $10.
I'd buy FLAC or Apple Lossless versions for $10, as long as they weren't crippled by DRM. I don't buy albums from the Apple music store, because of the DRM. I'd buy un-crippled MP3, but it'd need to be cheaper than buying the CD on half.com, because of the lower quality.
It's not an absolute value issue, it's a relative value issue. In a world where entire movies on DVD are $15 or less, CDs are just too expensive. I really wonder if the music companies are picking the right point on the price/profit bell curve in general, because I know they aren't for me.