[DM-MUG] This is WAY cool....Complete my Album in iTunes

[Jeff Muller]

I guess that's nice but isn't one of the main concepts and selling 
points of iTunes the ability to buy only the songs you want from an 
album? The idea being that many (most?) albums contain one or two 
"good" songs but when CDs were your only option, you had to pay for all 
the "crummy" songs, too, in order to hear the "good" ones. In essense, 
now they're offering a discount on the "crummy" songs! :-)

I can think of a couple of situations where someone would go for this 
but, to me, it seems counterintuitive to the basic iTunes concept. I'm 
not trying to start a big controversy here. It just seemed odd to me 
and I'm just wondering, am I missing something in this new service? (If 
so, it wouldn't be the first good idea I've discounted in my life!)


On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> Apple: iTunes introduces complete my album   Co announced a new iTunes 
> service that allows customers to turn their individual tracks into a 
> complete album at a reduced price by giving them a full 99 cent credit 
> for every track they have previously purchased from that album. When 
> users buy any ...
>  (AAPL), (Trade)
>
> Go to the store, click the button and see the albums that apply, 
> select one and you'll see that whatever from it that you have 
> previously purchased is greyed out and the rest show up and now you 
> can see if you want to buy the remaining songs without having to do 
> all the click and find yourself as long as it's within 6 mos. of the 
> purchase of the earlier song[s]....what a great concept!
> -- 
>
>
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