I was quite excited when I woke up this morning to find that Amazon had launched their MP3 store.  You can buy decent-quality songs or albums in delightfully non-DRM’d format for very reasonable prices.

I even found an album that I was interested in getting which was part of the labels they are currently offering on the store.  When I clicked through to the details, they had an “also available on CD” link so I checked that out… and sure enough the CD price is actually cheaper.  ($7.99 for the CD vs $8.99 for the MP3s)

I even have “free” 2-day shipping with Amazon Prime, so it would be kind of stupid for me to actually pay more money for less quality on this.  But it seems like such a waste to order a CD with all that packaging for something I’m just going to file away on a shelf somewhere.