Thursday, April 21, 2005

definite try, possible buy

Amazon.com often has free music downloads, a song or two you can listen to before you buy a CD. Now they've gathered together all of those songs into one useful webpage... yet another source of free and legal MP3s. You have to be logged in to download the full song, otherwise you can listen to a 30-second clip. I think giving them the chance to datamine my music tastes is an okay price to pay for free music... and besides, I just log in with a bullshit account anyway (thank you, Mailinator).

On a side note, I never thought I'd see the day when Amazon would tell me that 'Customers who bought this title also bought titles by: Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, Wilco, and Jesus & Mary Chain'.