Comments on: amazon mp3 store http://omgzombies.org/2007/09/25/amazon-mp3-store seeking brains for many long years, no luck so far Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:15:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: geekpdx http://omgzombies.org/2007/09/25/amazon-mp3-store/comment-page-1#comment-1190 geekpdx Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:05:31 +0000 http://worsethanhitler.org/2007/09/25/amazon-mp3-store#comment-1190 I too was excited with the new option - however, for those of us without <strike>crack</strike> Amazon habits that necessitate Amazon Prime the shipping charges and weeks of waiting aren't really worth it for the physical CD. I'll even consider paying a premium for "now". And I did. But I got "later". You can download individual tracks directly from the Amazon MP3 page, but to buy albums, you're instructed to download and install their download manager . So I do, because I wanted a David Bowie album. Now. Of course, for some reason, their download manager can't traverse the network here at my work - and has no options for me to properly setup a proxy. So I didn't get it. And I forgot to download at home last night, so again, no Bowie for me today. This is me, making a farting noise at Amazon. Fix your stuff. Do it quick-like, and I'll buy a ton of music. As for the packaging issue, I'd prefer to pay <i>less</i> for the non-packaged version, but either way, I still want less packaging in my life, so I'd still buy the MP3 version instead of the physical CD - even if I had Amazon Prime. I too was excited with the new option – however, for those of us without crack Amazon habits that necessitate Amazon Prime the shipping charges and weeks of waiting aren’t really worth it for the physical CD. I’ll even consider paying a premium for “now”.

And I did. But I got “later”. You can download individual tracks directly from the Amazon MP3 page, but to buy albums, you’re instructed to download and install their download manager . So I do, because I wanted a David Bowie album. Now. Of course, for some reason, their download manager can’t traverse the network here at my work – and has no options for me to properly setup a proxy. So I didn’t get it. And I forgot to download at home last night, so again, no Bowie for me today.

This is me, making a farting noise at Amazon. Fix your stuff. Do it quick-like, and I’ll buy a ton of music.

As for the packaging issue, I’d prefer to pay less for the non-packaged version, but either way, I still want less packaging in my life, so I’d still buy the MP3 version instead of the physical CD – even if I had Amazon Prime.

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