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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
 
Cheap Music

CNET is reporting that the Russians are going to shutdown Allofmp3.com. Figures that I reloaded $60 onto my balance last night. Well, I paid $60, but they gave me $72 worth of credit for using Xrost which is the only way you can reload with a visa anyway.

I went through and bought 308 songs on 18 albums for $47.11 last night. That's roughly an 84.4% discount to the Apple service, and the tunes aren't locked, the files are named to my specs, and all of the meta information is prefilled (although the genre always shows up as other). I've spent a fair amount of money on the site over the past few years because it's just so darn easy to find and download what you want. And you always know what you're getting; no worrying that some moron has mislabeled some song and Stiff Little Fingers is really Blink 182.

The site is currently up and running, so I guess I'll have to buy a bunch more music tonight. Shouldn't be too tough to find stuff. I hope it's not really going away, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it is. If the country shuts it down, I sure hope they take their massive, massive collections and flood the p2p networks or even start their own.