You get 20GB if you buy one album from them. They also don't count albums you buy from them.

Their prices need to come down. It's hard to justify 8-9 bucks an album. They're competing with free/cheap-skate and while they might not be able to swing 10 cents a song just yet, .80-1 USD per compressed song is pretty out of whack.

Well that certainly improves things nicely.

I find $0.99 is reasonable for a 320Kbps song especially if you only intend to buy a few songs. However, I see no point in buying a digitally compressed album at $8-$10 bucks. At that point I'm choosing compact disc everytime.

And that's my problem. Sometimes I do want an album, but I don't want another piece of plastic. It's the only way to get FLAC quality, though, and it's often cheaper than the album price for an all digital version.

Digital needs to be cheaper. There was a story of some barely known author the other day laughing is ass off about charging 99 cents for his book. He sells several 100 times as many as he sold at 9.99. People whine about editors and the like being the expensive part of books, not shipping the dead tree with ink on it, but they miss the point that those are flat costs. He makes that up in volume and then some. That russian mp3 store used to charge 3-10 cents per song and had tons of US customers, I think there's precedent for this working, it's just the industry doesn't want it to work.

Hm...

So I can upload something there, and then play it back on my website with an flash app of some kind?

I was looking for a place to host short music clips...

Edit: Wait, no, nevermind. This is just for personal use. Neat idea, though. I don't buy MP3s off Amazon (if I do so I buy them from indie artists instead) but it's okay if you're into that stuff.

Also no offense, but I won't pay $1 per song. Ever. :P

I think it's more intended to streaming to your phone or computer. Playing it on your website with a Flash player may not be supported by the TOS. Though, I'm sure they have a cheap cloud service for that (we're talking pennies a day).

Why not just use an empty spindle or binder to save space and throw the cases away?

My binders are full and I have spindles full of crap already, I'd rather just worry about backing up data for things not terribly dear to me rather than physical objects at this point. In fact I'm doing a purge right now (again, since my divorce, but moving this time) and even getting rid of a lot of crap, I find there's too many physical objects. Don't get me wrong, I love my game boxes and classic arcade systems, that old Madonna CD and Fortress 2 DVD though? i could do without packing those around.

FLAC or WAV, it doesn't matter much, since its lossless. I can't imagine giving money for some compressed MP3 files.

What I'd love to see is the ability to buy 32bit floating point WAV audio. Now that's some quality stuff. :)

Sure it matters. FLAC takes up a hell of a lot less space. HDTracks have got some 196KHz/24bit flac files for sale. That's some seriously high quality stuff right there too with the smaller file size again.

That's exactly what I thought before christmas too. I was ordering some famous classics christmas songs from amazon germany (0.8-1€ the usual conversion mismatch) for a party and basically was satisfied with quality and everything. But I also thought, if I would like to buy something like 10 albums per year, this has to get cheaper! There must be a large order discount. If you buy more than two albums, a 50% discount would be necessary. Otherwise music is just too expensive to buy.

There are plenty of great albums they have for $5. I'd say that's a pretty great deal.

They do have 5 dollar deals on some albums and that's a deal I'd respond to if I do know I like nearly the whole album. The 1.99 daily deals they used to run (which are now 3.99 and 4.99 it seems) used to make me try new stuff quite a bit.

I'm sure you'll be saying the same thing when your house catches on fire and you couldn't grab your external hard drives in time. Or if you forgot to print out an important paper for a meeting and didn't keep an extra copy on Dropbox or Cloud Drive. Or if you want to carry your entire music collection without taking up 99% of your phone's SD/Flash memory.