Category Archives: Music

Rhapsody MP3 Store

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Ben

Rhapsody has launched a DRM-free MP3 store. This is a big improvement. Previously, their MP3s were locked in a ghetto in the Windows desktop software. Prices seem to be $1 per album higher than Amazon, even for Rhapsody subscribers.

Posted in DRM, Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Free Nine Inch Nails Album

Posted on 5/5/2008 by Ben

Nine Inch Nails are giving away their new album, The Slip, completely free.

Posted in Copyfight, Music | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 4/28/2008 by Ben

The album of last week was Flight of the Conchords.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 4/12/2008 by Ben

The album of the week is The Breeders’ Mountain Battles.

Posted in Rhapsody Featured Mix | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 3/28/2008 by Ben

The album of the week is Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 3/10/2008 by Ben

The album of last week was Stephen Malkmus’s Real Emotional Trash.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

New Nine Inch Nails Album in MP3, CC-licensed

Posted on 3/3/2008 by Ben

Nine Inch Nails new 2-hour, instrumental album is now available in a plethora of digital formats, and several physical, collector-friendly formats. And you can get the first nine tracks for free. And it’s all distributed under a Creative Commons license. … Continue reading →

Posted in Copyfight, DRM, Music | Leave a comment

Amazon MP3 Downloader for Linux

Posted on 2/29/2008 by Ben

Amazon MP3 now has a Linux version of their album downloader. It’s annoying (and puzzling) that music stores force you to use these proprietary downloaders instead of just pushing you the files in a zip or something, but at least … Continue reading →

Posted in DRM, Music | 1 Comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 2/29/2008 by Ben

The album of the week is Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Yahoo! Music Unlimited No More

Posted on 2/8/2008 by Ben

Yahoo! is planning to shut down its Yahoo! Music Unlimited service and redirect it’s users to Rhapsody. It’s sad to see less competition in the streaming music space, I think competition from Yahoo! drove some of the recent improvements to … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 2/1/2008 by Ben

Vampire Weekend is very nice but the Mars Volta are blowing my mind with The Bedlam in Goliath.

Posted in Music, Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

Posted on 1/22/2008 by Ben

The album of last week was the Magnetic Fields’ Distortion.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Rhapsody 2007

Posted on 12/21/2007 by Ben

It’s time once again for my year-end playlist in convenient CD length. My favorite part about all of the year-end lists is that I always find a bunch of great music that I had missed or didn’t take to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Free Okkervil River Covers Album

Posted on 12/12/2007 by Ben

Okkervil River have released a free MP3 album of covers that they recorded on tour. If the download is slow you can get it from Pitchfork as well.

Posted in Music | Leave a comment

Deutsche Grammophon MP3s

Posted on 12/3/2007 by Ben

Deutshe Grammophon has launched a web store with 320kbps MP3s. I’m not sure how much of the catalog is available but several selections from NPR’s 50 essentials are there.

Posted in Copyfight, DRM, Music | Leave a comment