Yesterday I wrote about some music I got from Amie Street - but not what the music was, or what I paid for it. This corrects that oversight.

Right now, I’m listening to Beeblebrox’s RealBrox - a light, airy jazz album. Over two hours of music (they don’t have to be constrained by physical CDs), and I got it for $2.01.

Amie Street is a different animal. They sell MP3s, not CDs, and charge on a sliding scale. Every time somebody votes for a song (by buying it), the price goes up a penny. The songs on the RealBrox album are priced in the mid-teens. That’s a bargain. If (when) they get enormously popular, the price will cap out at 98 cents. So the album has fifteen songs, and the album price will top out at $14.70.

I’m a skinny spender, and Amie Street has multiple free albums and free songs. I downloaded one from a group named [PR/PR] and I must have done something, because now one of their songs costs 9 cents. I admit I don’t understand all their pricing structures. I don’t have to. I just throw money at them, and they throw music at me.

I picked up both albums from Fusion Orchestra, and paid less than a buck for the two of them. That’s only seven songs total, and I would have preferred that they be combined (I don’t think there’s any benefit to having them separate. The price cap comes by song, not by album).

The thing to do is to find new music, before other people have purchased it and driven up the price.

I got Amanardi’s album Message from the moons for around a dollar. What’s it like? I have no idea. I played it today, I think, and liked it, but couldn’t tell you a thing about it. I liked it last night, when I was sampling it (all songs can be listened to, as a 2-minute sample), and it’s a half-hour of music for a buck. Hard to go wrong.

Downloads happen in a zip file (this can be multiple albums, if you want), and you can download your music multiple times. They store it all in your library.

I got Kytaja’s album. (Both of the letter A in their name includes umlauts.) The price was a dollar ten or twenty. Can you see a trend in my purchases?

Finally, a big album (20 songs) from Andrew Puzankov. Almost half Christian songs (still instrumental), and half Russian folk songs. For just north of two bucks.

To buy music, you have to give them some money (to store in their bank - I’m sure they pick up some minor interest from it). They take Paypal. I dumped in ten bucks, and spent less than 7. You can also invite friends, and when they sign up, you get an extra four bucks in your account. So now Bettie is a member, and I’ve been enriched. Now I just have to find out what she wants me to spend it on . . .