This is kind of interesting, thunk I to myself, when I found the ITMS Link Maker – whatcha do is, you enter song titles, album titles and/or recording artistes and the page returns an HTML link to the object of your search, so that folks can follow you into the iTunes music store and hear a sample what you’re blethering on about. And buy it from the Music Store, if they’re daft. Otherwise, they can whizz off somewhere else and pick up the actual CD. What it doesn’t do is link to the more interesting, feature aspect of the store, so I am unable to link, for example, to Michael Stipe’s celebrity playlist, which I might vaguely have wanted to do.
99 cents doesn’t sound like a lot to pay for a tune, if you say it quickly. Then you see that you can buy, say, all of the tracks from Stipe’s playlist, and that will set you back more than $30 – which is a hell of a price, really. Should be able to get some kind of quantity discount, at the very least…