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Visit allofmp3.com and you'll probably think you've hit download heaven. The site features millions of songs with CD-quality audio, from Elvis to the Flaming Lips, and adds 30 albums a day - including music by the likes of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin that isn't even available at other download stores. Tracks cost a few pennies and entire albums go for a buck or two, a fraction of the cost at Apple's iTunes store. In Britain, the site garners 14% of the online music market, second only to iTunes. "I've probably downloaded a couple hundred...
...shut down allofmp3.com, copycat sites are bound to emerge elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. Indeed, competition already exists from sites like musicmp3.ru. A disclaimer on that site notes that mp3s are low-quality audio and "if you like particular album or song we recommend you buy the original CD." It's not a bad idea - though fewer and fewer people seem to be heeding...
After the Dixie Chicks got in trouble, I promptly went out and purchased their CD Top of the World--and I loved it. I'm going to buy Taking the Long Way as well. I suspect there are many others who like me were first drawn to the Dixie Chicks by their courage and honesty in speaking out against the war and stayed with them because of those same qualities in their music...
...leverage of the long tail can give even tiny companies a chance to compete against the biggest of behemoths. A healthy 40% of sales for the online music site Rhapsody, for example, comes from esoteric tunes not found in Wal-Mart's CD bins. In some cases, the long tail turns underdogs into giant killers. Anderson's case in point: the online video retailer Netflix, which overtook the neighborhood video-rental company Blockbuster. He found that 21% of Netflix's sales came from obscure or older movies, not the blockbusters that gave the once mighty chain its name. Blockbuster, meanwhile...
...hurt by something one of my family members said. My buddy and I had bought these matching knives, and I took [one] and I kind of poked a hole in my wrist. I began to cut down towards my elbow, and I had just purchased a CD by DMX, and basically this rapper was talking to God. He said, "I'm in so much pain when I'm here, Lord, please take me away". And then God says, "I put you here to do a job, and your work ain't done. To live is to suffer...