Amazon vs. iTunes

VS.

I'll admit it, I didn't want to buy music from anywhere but iTunes because of a few reasons. 1) I thought if I bought it from anywhere else, it wouldn't be compatible on my iPod or in iTunes. 2) I thought it would cost more. And 3) I'm a little bit of an Apple fanboy.

However, once iTunes introduced its tiered pricing, and all of the "popular songs" aka the only ones people want, were raised from $0.99 cents to $1.29, I decided to look around a little bit.

I was wary of Amazon because I thought they were like a poor man's eBay site for some reason. However, I was so very wrong. Every new song that I hear turns out to be $1.29 on iTunes, but only $0.99 cents on Amazon.com. Check out some of the hits right now...


Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas
iTunes - $1.29
Amazon - $0.99


Kiss A Girl by Keith Urban
iTunes - $1.29
Amazon - $0.99


New Divide by Linkin Park
iTunes - $1.29
Amazon - $0.99

This is not to say that Amazon out-does iTunes in every price, though it does on most. Most of the popular songs in the top ten can be found on Amazon for 30 cents less. That doesn't sound like much to me and you, but 30 cents here and there multiplied by millions of people gives Apple and the recording labels the power to continue to raise prices at their discretion.

As for the compatibility issue, Amazon links seamlessly with iTunes and any other media player you may have. I just download the single song I want from Amazon (after creating an account of course) save it to my desktop, then drag it in to iTunes on my Dock (on a Mac, dont really know the procedure on a PC) and it imports itself. Its that easy. If you have any questions on PC compatibility click here for Amazon's FAQ page.

Hope this opened your eyes a little bit to the other options of music available out there. Check out Amazon today!