I heard a brilliant song on the radio the other day. I’ve got the artist name, Alison Brown, the track name Pirate Queen and the album name Stolen Moments.
Now I want to download the album. I know I could install iTunes and I might find the album through that. As for other services, a quick google search returned a smattering of music download sites but they unfortunately didn’t have the album available.
But there must be more options other than Apple’s iTunes for purchasing and downloading albums. Right?
If you know of a quality website for purchasing music please let me know.
As an after thought. A company called Hash 6 who whom we share the same building offer a service whereby upon having heard the song on the radio, you could text the radio station and the song would be saved for you to purchase and download at a later stage.
Now that would have been handy.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Chris.com or Eimear.com
Seriously though iTunes is what I use. So easy and now with a growing collection of DRM free music.
Another option I’d try for smaller bands and labels is emusic.com. amiestreet.com has an interesting model too (price on demand.)
But yes, it is still a fragmented, frustrating market.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Yep, ended up going with iTune, it’s fantastic. And they certainly make it easy to find whatever you want and spend money.
Another massive market Apple has managed to corner!