Last week I wanted to buy an album by Portishead called “Dummy”. I loaded up iTunes and found it in the music store. It was £7.90 for ten tracks. Then I looked on CDWOW and found it for £6.99 for the same ten tracks, plus the actual CD with case and inlays, the cost of getting the CD to me and there’s nothing to stop me backing up my CD to as many devices as I like.

I like the idea of ITMS but it’s no good for buying albums. If there’s one track I want I don’t mind paying 79p for it but why would you pay more for the data off an album (with it’s somewhat restrictive licensing) than you could buy the actual CD for?

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