MP3 album $5
Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, May 16 2009
iTunes put the prices up on it’s top selling songs from $.99 to $1.29. While sales went down 34% iTunes revenues went up. More money on fewer sales, the Apple way. TheRegister.co.uk
Amazon.com has come up with the good-old-clearance sale strategy. The whole CD for $5.00 which is something less than $.50 a song.
The titles are odd. Etta James first release from 1960 – At Last . Kenny Rogers and The Gambler. Maria Callas singing Puccini Arias. Rock, soul, pop, indie – it’s all there. It feels like the clearance bin.
Even more interesting me was their collection of The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time for prices ranging from $4 to $10. You can flip the list and get CD’s if you prefer that. I would: you get the liner notes albeit in tiny type.
The choices are interesting if not “the” best 100 jazz albums: Eric Dolpy, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and all the stars of Jazz. It looks like the Verve, Blue Note catalog.
Some of the titles have been remastered in 24-bit audio which would be close to analog sound from an LP.
I’ll have to dig out my 60s jazz records and listen to them.
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