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Emusic bills again

Don — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:25:28 +0000

I just happened to notice that Emusic has taken it upon themselves to restart my subscription and charge me, without any notice. sigh.

The eMusic party is finally over

Don — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:46:05 +0000

With the addition of UMG, eMusic draws their life as the alternative-little-guy-tries-to-be-good to an end. Gone are the simple to use credit-per-track subscription models. In their place is a credit-as-currency-that-you-can-lose model. It certainly places them in an odd position. Their value differentiation is gone. There’s no benefit to being a subscriber to emusic; you’re better off spending your money as you want to via amazon’s mp3 store. There’s nothing that emusic has exclusive control over, and now they aren’t any cheaper. I put my account on a 90 day hold; hopefully before the 90 days is up, their revenue stream will have suffered enough that they decide to ditch UMG altogether, and go back to indie-land where they can thrive. Rhapsody still rocks.

Shilelagh Law – Half The Bottle Down (AR)

Don — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:07 +0000

Shilelagh Law – Half The Bottle Down

A very nicely boisterous album of celtic folk, it puts me to mind of a mix somewhere between Amadan and Altan. I’m pretty sure I actually found them because I was looking for other people’s versions of “Big Strong Man”, and while I still prefer the one by Stone Soup Band, their version of “Tell Me Ma” is worth at least 3 listens so far =p

Sally Gardens/Joe Cooley’s – an instrumental number, fast paced drums and flute, a good song for dancing

Muirsheen Durkin/Whiskey in the Jar -Nice and rollicking versions of both

A couple slow songs I skipped. Overall, well worth the emusic credits I spent.

Bittersweet Syncrhonicity

Don — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:06 +0000

What an oddly bittersweet synchronicity, that Michael Jackson would die just days before his full catalog became available on Emusic. And thanks to the new 12-credit-max-cost-per-album change, it’s working out to be an extra sweet deal.