There won't really be a change to the music industry or a big drop in music piracy until someone is able to do an iTunes style "store" that is completely free and is combined with top quality audio files with zero DRM...

Radio stations have been offering free music to listeners for about a century thanks to commercials paying the licence fees, and wages of staff and so on. Why should it be any different with doing it on-demand over the Internet?

7digital sell (legal) MP3, and have a specific store for indies:
http://indiestore.7digital.com/

And the big difference between this and the first (1990s) incarnation of mp3.com is???

Excellent quote-of-press-release that. :-/

This was a fantastic cut & paste job from the site's press release. Typos and poor grammar completely intact too!

Someone poke me when FLAC files are available to download from anywhere for 60p a track or less, then I might pay attention. In the meantime I'll keep on buying those PVC discs!

Neat. I may sign up.

*looks at page*

WHAT? They don't have "Alternative rock" listed as a Genre? I have to dig through "rock/pop" to find what I want?? Not starting off well.

HMV don't sell singles. I tried to buy a CD single in HMV on Saturday in Westfield Shopping Center (largest in Europe, so they say).

I asked the HMVer where the singles were only to be told "We don't sell singles, only albums."

If the shops won't sell us singles, how are we supposed to buy music? Is this a defence against MAFIA?

Bronze have more fun.

Pricing starts at zero cents per track/album and works it way up to $0.89/$8.99 as more people buy.

Many (but, not all) tracks are 320kbps.

Perfect would be FLAC.

As it would seem that no one outside the U.S.A can listen or buy anything I reckon it's pretty much a waste of time.

Not sure why they would limit there sales to a particular country. I'm in Canada and cannot purchase anything.

Wanted to buy a couple of songs from The Monks.....

Magnatune has been doing this for a while now, but there pricing structure is variable (customer dependent). The Electric Fetus is nice, has more selection, I would say. Magnatune's way better serves the consumer and our needs (as described in the article), IMHO.

I looked at this site and clicked to buy a some which was quite good only to be told you can not buy this song from your country. If these are unsigned musicians whats the point on restricing sales (unless our monry isn't good enough in the current recession)

is this to join the other 9m sites offering inde artists with no DRM?

CD Baby, anyone?