eMusic offers Sony, Jacks up Prices
” Effective Jul 13, 2009, your plan will change to the new eMusic Basic plan which gives you 30 downloads for $11.99 every 30 days.
We’re sorry that we’ve had to retire your current plan, but we’re confident that you’ll find even more music to love among the many new additions to the music catalog.”
Grrr. The eMusic selection of reasonably-priced, non-RIAA sponsoring, indie-only music tracks is coming to an end. I don’t doubt that the other majors will follow soon, but this feels like the end of your local college record store to me.
June 16th, 2009 at 10:37
Okay. I’ll actually buy what Stein has to say here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/q-and-a-music-ceo-explains-controversial-price-increase-sony-deal/.
And I’ll reiterate my comment on eMusic that I’d have not complained about my cost per track going up 20%, but doubling? No. I’ll see how things look next month, but unless something outside of the mainstream stuff Sony serves with a shovel (i.e. other indie labels) shows up, I can see suspending my account.