Nov102008
10 Reasons To Try Emusic
Filed under Music by Kim at 1:20 pm on Nov 10 2008
Jack & I have been sharing an emusic account for over a year now. I’ve downloaded nearly 500 songs and while I haven’t been in love with everything, I’ve found a whole bunch of stuff I wouldn’t have found otherwise. (Thanks to The Abstract Factory for this instruction on how to browse the catalog before signing up.)
- $0.40 per song.
- no DRM!
- E is for Espers
- M is for M. Ward and Murray Head
- U is for universally usable mp3 format
- S is for Sonata Arctica and The Sadies and the Smithsonian Folkways collection
- I is for Interpol and Isis
- C is for Camper Van Beethoven
- you don’t mind a subscription-based service
- and you enjoy sifting through new (often independent) music to find gems
I point out #9 because when I was composing this post I went looking for consumer complaints about emusic. I found some but most of them centered around feeling like the person could not use all their downloads. It does take a little time commitment to look around the site for things you might like.
If you sign up for their 50 free downloads note that you want to read the fine print carefully so that if you do want to cancel, you know the deadline. (I think “at any time” is misleading.)
