Alltunes.com
I read a review this week for a cheap music service called alltunes. It is based off of another website at allofmp3. They hail no monthly fees and just .02 per megabyte! This equates to about an entire album of music for between $1 or $2, depending on the quality you want. You just have to plug in a few bucks for their credit style system. I also heard that after purchasing a few credits you could preview entire songs at a lower bitrate… so far I don’t believe that to be true. However, the preview goes on for quite some time so I don’t mind it too much.
With that said though, others have raised questions about the legality of this service since they are based in Russia and thus circumvent US laws. I’m not sure who I believe but they’ve been around for a few years so anyones guess is as good as mine. As a result, I’m not sure if when my $10 credit runs out I’ll ditch them or stick with it. It is nice to see a more competitive pricing model than iTunes though! Just maybe a little too competitive!
I thought about this myself, but if you want your music lossless, like me, you’re still better off buying it used through Amazon or eBay. Considering an average alubm would cost 4-7 dollars to buy used anyway.
Yeah, well they don’t call you the “Audio Nazi” for nothing do they?
Be careful with these services. I heard rumors of these business’ actually using people’s credit cards to fill their bank accounts by stealing directly from them.
I was a little wary of that. Still, after checking them out and looking at what other current users said it seemed like an ok tryout.