Why would anyone buy an album on iTMS for $9.99 when [insert big-box retail chain here] sells it for $11.99, and sometimes for the same $9.99 on sale?
Here are what I see as the advantages of iTMS. 1. You can pay less (maybe a LOT less) for just the songs you like off an album, and you get the album art with single-song purchases. 2. You get immediate gratification because your purchase is downloaded right after you click to make the purchase. 3. You can shop 24/7… in your pajamas. 4. Apple has not indicated any intention of running time-limited discounts/sales, so you need not worry about not getting the best deal possible. 5. You’re helping Apple’s fiscal bottom-line, as roughly 1/3 of the purchase cost is kept by “our favorite charitable organization”. 6. Although it is dependent on the record companies digging their master tapes out of cold storage, there is a much higher possibility of seeing rare, out-of-print albums for sale on iTMS than in standard retail stores because of the cost commitment to stamp thousands of physical CDs. If you happen to own these kinds of albums and were counting on them as part of an investment portf
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