As you may have heard , the fourth - wonderwall of the solo - Beatles ’ quadrangle is now in position at the iTunes Store thanks to the inclusion of George Harrison ’s catalog . As you may have also take heed , Amazon has start the door on itsAmazonMP3 music download help , a service that offers high-pitched - quality DRM - devoid recording at prices mostly lower than those at the iTunes Store .
Those of us impressed by Amazon ’s steal prices have changed the way of life we buy euphony . “ Check Amazon First ! ” is our motto . However , after a late exploration of the two emporia I ’m prepared to modify that shibboleth to take “ Check Amazon First , But Double - Check iTunes Just In typeface ! ”
The link between The Quiet Beatle and the two music stores is this : Harrison ’s finest work ( and , okay , perhaps the strongest solo - Beatles album ever free — and yes , I ’ve listened toImagineandBand On The Run , thank you very much),All thing Must Passis available from both Amazon and the iTunes Store . If you ’re after DRM - free versions of the album ’s single tracks , Amazon wins bridge player - down . Except for the album ’s longest crush cut ( originally find on sides 5 and 6 of the LP release ) , Amazon offer nearly all its DRM - spare item-by-item caterpillar track for $ .99 versus iTunes ’ DRM - free iTunes Plus path for $ 1.29 each . Amazon charges a bounty damage of $ 1.94 for these retentive tracks ( and no , in my humble impression , they ’re not deserving it ) , but at least it allows you to buy them individually . On iTunes they ’re Album Only .
However , if you purchase the entire album , iTunes offers the good deal . Amazon wants $ 13.55 forthe albumversus the more - than - reasonable $ 9.99iTunes Plus price(plus you get a digital booklet that you do n’t get from Amazon ) .
If you follow this stuff you recognise that , give the choice between purchasing the protected- and iTunes Plus versions of an record album , iTunes Plus is the good path to go as the prices are the same but you get well encoding tone and no DRM . But what I ’ve just learned is that every so often , iTunes ’ album Leontyne Price may be an even bigger buy than I imagined .
