Suckers

I can’t bring myself to buy mp3s. That doesn’t mean I still download illegal copies of songs, those days are long gone. But paying for them doesn’t seem like a good solution either. I mean 99 cents per song is just too much and even $10 per album is more than I can bring myself to pay for a chunk of bits. So, I pay the extra three to five dollars and get a hard copy with a nice case and a pretty book.

BUT... for not buying mp3s, I’ve acquired more than my fair share of them, and legally too! A lot of these music sites offer free trials or sign up bonuses and they all like to email me their offers. So I sign up, get the free songs and then cancel.

Today I was an eMusic subscriber for two hours... I got 40 free songs so I downloaded both discs of Belle & Sebastian’s Push Barman To Open Old Wounds, B&S’s Fold Your Arms Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, and four songs from Isobel Campbell’s Amorino.

MSN Music did a ‘buy one song, get 5 free’ a while back... I got the six non-instrumental Belle & Sebastian songs from Storytelling.

Sony’s crappy Connect site gave me 10 free songs, I got all of Weezer’s Green album.

The first time I was a temporary eMusic subscriber I got a bunch of CCR songs.

Keep those offers coming and I’ll keep being your freeloading bastard customer!