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July 03, 2009

Fuzzy Math and the New eMusic Subscription Plan...

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The Bruce Springsteen classic, Born to Run, is one of the best examples I found. You can download seven of the album’s eight tracks individually, but if you want the title track, you’ll have spend 12 downloads to get the entire album. So recent subscribers, who will soon be paying 50 cents a download, will spend $6 dollars on the album. That’s not a horrible deal, but it’s closing in on the $7.92 price at Amazon MP3 and iTunes. However, if you want to bother with the hassle of assembling the album from different sources, you could purchase the title track from Amazon for $1.29 and then complete the album by downloading the remaining seven tracks from eMusic, for a total price of $4.79. The track is only 99 cents at iTunes, so it’s only $4.49 if you don’t mind mixing digital file formats.



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