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I just read a good interview with eMusic CEO David Pakman. I like it when people whose businesses I make use of really understand what is important to their customers. I want good, DRM-free, high quality music. Fine, that's exactly what eMusic gives me, and at a good price, less than 1/4 of what iTunes charges. Because the Big Four music labels refuse to sell their music DRM-free, there are few big, established pop, rock, and rap artists there, but that's not a problem. Firstly, it gives me a chance to discover some new stuff, and secondly, I'm more into classical, traditional, jazz&blues and world music anyway. And in those fields, they have both well-known artists and great recordings.
This is going to sound like a sales pitch, but as I mentioned a couple of months ago, because of eMusic I have started to listen to music again in a serious way that I haven't since I left university in the late 80s. The user community is great, setting up things like this wiki and this guide to classical music, to help eMusic subscribers find the good stuff on the site.
During the year I've downloaded from eMusic, I've discovered artists like Alison Brown, Bill Jones, Bohola, Dave van Ronk, Drakkar Sauna, John Fahey, John Renbourn, Kate Rusby, Leigh Nash, Neko Case, Sonny Rollins, The Decemberists, and The New Pornographers, and I've been able to explore artists I've mostly heard of but never really listened to much, like Art Pepper, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Seeger, and Thelonious Monk. And I've been able to listen to records by artists like Ewan MacColl, Jacques Brel, Pete Seeger, and Solas, that I didn't own before.
The key to all this is the iPod I got for my birthday last year. I've owned a Sony Walkman and a CD Walkman, but I never used any of those much, so I was skeptical to buying an MP3 player. However, I borrowed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jlms's iPod when I started to take walks for exercise last winter, and found that walking and listeing to music is a pleasant combination. And then I hunted for a legal download service, and found eMusic.
Well, this commercial is over now. Move on! ;)
This is going to sound like a sales pitch, but as I mentioned a couple of months ago, because of eMusic I have started to listen to music again in a serious way that I haven't since I left university in the late 80s. The user community is great, setting up things like this wiki and this guide to classical music, to help eMusic subscribers find the good stuff on the site.
During the year I've downloaded from eMusic, I've discovered artists like Alison Brown, Bill Jones, Bohola, Dave van Ronk, Drakkar Sauna, John Fahey, John Renbourn, Kate Rusby, Leigh Nash, Neko Case, Sonny Rollins, The Decemberists, and The New Pornographers, and I've been able to explore artists I've mostly heard of but never really listened to much, like Art Pepper, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Seeger, and Thelonious Monk. And I've been able to listen to records by artists like Ewan MacColl, Jacques Brel, Pete Seeger, and Solas, that I didn't own before.
The key to all this is the iPod I got for my birthday last year. I've owned a Sony Walkman and a CD Walkman, but I never used any of those much, so I was skeptical to buying an MP3 player. However, I borrowed
jlms's iPod when I started to take walks for exercise last winter, and found that walking and listeing to music is a pleasant combination. And then I hunted for a legal download service, and found eMusic.Well, this commercial is over now. Move on! ;)
