eMusic home stretch

What is it dropping from and to? If you sign up before the 21st, are you grandfathered in at the old level indefinitely?

Current plan

Music Basic
40 downloads per month
$9.99 per month
becomes to 30 downloads

eMusic Plus
65 downloads per month
$14.99 per month
becomes 50 downloads

eMusic Premium Best Value
90 downloads per month
$19.99 per month
becomes 75 downloads

you get a 20% discount for paying for a years subscription and 25% for two years.

regarding future rollover
If you are happy with your current monthly or annual rollover plan, simply do nothing. Your selected plan will be guaranteed as long as you keep your account active and in good standing. However, if you wish to lock in a new rollover plan, you must do so before November 21st, 2006.

We recommend that you review and set your rollover plan now to lock in at the lowest price per download available After Nov 21st, if you want to upgrade, you'll no longer be able to upgrade into the older plans. All the more reason to upgrade now!

and if you need an emusic invite several of us are dying for free downloads… primarily ME!!!!!

Warp and Domino are GONE. I guess they weren't supposed to be there in the first place.

Thanks. I was at that black cat gig and enjoyed it. They were polished, both live and on the short EP I picked up. I'll check out the full album.

Good suggestions all.

Originally posted by Bartelby:
I've enjoyed your critques of bands here, and I think I know your tastes a bit. If it's available, I'd highly recommend Driveblind's new cd - released about two weeks ago. Power pop/great vocals. Played both Black Cat and 930 club this year and are just as good live as in the studio. One of my top five picks out of 65 bands I heard at SXSW this year.

eMusic has just added 35 titles from the Scat Records Catalog w/ Guided by Voices, Cobra Verde, My Dad is Dead, The Styrenes, etc. Sounds like the pre-punk Cleveland music scene was very interesting. It being the scene that spawned DEVO, The Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. Lots of shared influences and sounds, just not widely known outside of the area.

This looks very promising Those Were Different Times - Cleveland 1972-1976

Also being added more titles from Sundaze and new titles from Norton Records,two premiere Garage Rock specialists labels.

Curious if most get their downloads from eMusic?

Originally posted by El Tee:
Curious if most get their downloads from eMusic?

I get nearly all of my "legal" downloads from eMusic, but I wouldn't say that I get most of my total downloads from eMusic.

Supplement with iTunes then? (Yep, Santa brought me an iPod. The cost of this thing is what Barbie is for kids.)

Mary J.Bilge

Originally posted by El Tee:
Supplement with iTunes then? (Yep, Santa brought me an iPod. The cost of this thing is what Barbie is for kids.)

Good for you. You can do that, although I still find it cheaper to buy used Cd's and rip to iTunes than it is to buy off iTunes, but the used market is a little better where I live.

With an iPod, there is really no other option other than eMusic (MP3) or iTunes (AAC) if you choose to download your music. Most other online stores use Windows Media Audio files that iPods don't support.

Originally posted by vansmack:
With an iPod, there is really no other option other than eMusic (MP3) or iTunes (AAC) if you choose to download your music.

psst:

http://www.torrentz.com/
http://www.indietorrents.com/

emusic just added a bunch of Felt albums

everyone but especially kosmo should download this album by The Chalets - brilliant, catchy pop

http://www.emusic.com/album/10893/10893379.html

yup the Chalets is fun….

also checkout in similar vein Charlotte Hatherley's new single, ex Ash guitarist continues the solo career with a good but not great single.

hey kosmo - your PM box is full. Can you please contact me? Thanks.

In response to El Tee's earlier question, I pretty much only download from eMusic. I rarely go to iTunes (I think I got an early release of an album once, and I filled in a bunch of classic rock singles for a playlist I was doing for a going away party – didn't have any Allman Brothers or Lynrd Skynrd of my own).

What I love about eMusic is the following:

- Each month, I get a couple albums I may have bought anyway, and a couple completely new bands (to me) just to try – usually stuff I hear about here (like Chalets, Pipettes, The Sails – which I'm getting today). At basically $2 an album, that works for me.

- If there's not enough indie/pop for me, I fill in with jazz and classical - they've got oodles of John Coltrane, Miles, Dave Brubeck, etc.

- I can do anything I want with eMusic downloads. Imagine that, I actually own them outright! (Unlike iTunes).

- When SxSW is coming up, lots of the bands I don't already know are available on eMusic.

- They list everything you've downloaded already, and you can download it again. Great if you have a hard drive die, or if, like me, you want to have albums both at work and home (I can't burn CDs on my work computer).

I know some folks are enjoying The Chalets right now. Just to point out the the label their are on, Setanta has a bunch of great Irish (and some english) bands from the 90s and 00s that are all well worth your emusic downloads A House, Frank and Walters, Brian, Richard Hawley, Edwyn Collins, SUltans of Ping, Into Paradise etc etc

Keith, the label owner has a great ear so you really can;t go wrong with alot of the downloads esp if you are into indie pop

http://www.emusic.com/label/116/116848.html

Originally posted by redsock:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:


and if you act quickly a couple UK labels as they may soon be unavailable to the US are there.

What's happening with these labels? Why will they soon not be available?

Grammar check! "Why will they soon not be available?" English 101 here you come!

given that Ted Leo is on Touch and Go and Andrew Bird is on Fat Possum do people think their new CDs will be available on emusic?