Quoted: But now, eight years later, Amazon’s finally done what was clearly the right solution in 1999. Music in the format that people actually want it in, with a Web-based experience that’s simple and works with any device. I bought tracks from Amazon (Kevin Drew and No Age), downloaded them, sync’d them to my new iPod Nano, and had them playing in my home audio system (Control 4) in less than five minutes. PRAISE JESUS. It only took 8 years.

Radiohead's new album on October 10th will be a "pay what you want" sort of deal.

Quoted: The band's new album is available only through its website, and it's price is up to you. That has record labels very, very nervous

A detailed review of the new Amazon MP3 store from one of my favorite bloggers.

Allofmp3.com was finally shut down.

Quoted: The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down.

Jonathan Coulton is the musician who has been touring with Hodgman. He's a talented, funny, and incredibly prolific artist who is choosing to make his living out of the main-stream music marketplace. Check out his website (which has many free music tracks) or subscribe to his song a week podcast (which is free). If you like his stuff, pay him for it.

His most famous song (it spread like wildfire online) is about computer programmers and it's called "Code Monkey." Some of you should be interested in that.

A pretty decent idea about why the music giants want to control their pricing.